Wiggins v. Sylvester
Wiggins v. Sylvester
Opinion of the Court
It appears by the transcript of the record filed herein, that a trial was had upon .a declaration sounding in tort and that a verdict for the defendants was rendered.
Under the statute writs of error lie only from final judgments and from orders granting new trials. Secs. 1691 and 1695, Gen. Stats.,. 1906, Comp. Laws, 1914.
Where no final judgment upon the merits of the cause in an action at law appears in the transcript of the record brought to the Supreme Court on a writ of error to such a judgment, the writ of error will be dismissed at the cost of the plaintiff in error. Jones v. Tyler, 58 Fla. 290, 51 South. Rep. 283; Flournoy v. Interstate Electric Co., 61 Fla. 214, 55 South. Rep. 983.
There being no final judgment in the transcript, the writ of error is dismissed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- W. M. Wiggins, in Error v. Howard Sylvester, John W. Woodward, Angus Gillis, M. H. Luten and Chas. H. Willis, in Error
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- 2 cases
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- Syllabus
- 1. Under the statute writs of error lie only from final judgments and from orders granting new trials. 2. Where no final judgment upon the merits of the cause in an action at law appears in the transcript of the record brought to the Supreme Court on writ of error to such a judgment, the writ of error will be dismissed at the cost of the plaintiff in error. 3. Under the provisions of Section 1691 of the General Statutes of 1906, writs of error lie only from final judgments, and from orders granting new tyials, and when a transcript of record carried by writ of error to the appellate court for review fails to show a final judgment in the cause such writ of error will be dismissed by the court ex proprio motu.