352 So. 2d 166 - Bowen v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Greyhound Corporation v. Carswell · 351 So. 2d 732 - Hill v. School Bd. of Leon County · Koch v. State Road Department of Florida · Hanna v. American International Land Corporation · 295 So. 2d 684 - Burlingham v. Allen
Most-quoted passages
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“As Judge Mills stated in Hill v. Leon County School Board, 351 So.2d 732 (Fla.1st DCA 1977), opinion filed October 28, 1977, “* * * We should never become so technical that we obscure the justice of a case. To do so merely brings justice and those who administer it into disrepute. Although we must have rules to guide us in the performance of our duties, we should never ignore common sense in reaching a just result. If we desire respect for the law, and we do, we must first make the law respectable. To do this we must not permit technicalities from preventing justice being done.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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