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84 Fla. 516

Smith v. Dillard

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided November 7, 1922

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1922-11-07

Relies on Haile v. Mason Hotel & Investment Co. · Callison v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

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Decided 1922-11-07

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West, J.

¶1This is a motion to dismiss the writ of error. The ground of the motion is that writ of error was illegally issued because the plaintiffs in error, who were the original plaintiffs, had not prior to the issuance of the *517writ of error, paid all costs which had accrued in and about the said suit up to that time.

¶2Upon authority of Callison v. A. C. L. R. R. Co., 82 Fla. 516, 90 South. Rep. 619, construing section 2908 of the Revised General Statutes, a writ of error may.be dismissed upon the ground stated in this motion.

¶3The writ of error was issued and duly recorded in the minute book of the Circuit Court on the 24th day of July, 1922. It was returnable to this court September 20, 1922. The motion to dismiss was filed in this court on November 1, 1922. From a statement made by the' clerk of the Circuit Court from the common law progress docket attached to the motion to dismiss it appears that the accrued costs in the case were paid on September 6, 1922, after the writ of error was issued but fifty-five days before the motion to dismiss was filed in this court.

¶4In Haile v. Mason Hotel and Investment Company, 71 Fla. 469, 71 South. Rep. 540, upon a motion to dismiss this court held: “The latter provision (of sec. 2908 Rev. Gen'. Stat.) is for the benefit of the defendant in the trial court and it may be waived. In this case it was stated at the bar that the costs assessed when the writ of error was issued were paid. Subsequently other costs due in the cause were taxed. The defendant having submitted the cause before making the motion to dismiss has waived his right by not acting promptly. He had notice of the issuance of the writ of error by its record under the statute.” In that case the motion to dismiss was denied.

¶5The defendants in errbr, the original defendants, in this case must be held to have-had notice of the writ of error since the date of its recordation, July 24, 1922. So far as this record discloses no protest nor objection was *518made by them to the issuance of the writ of error. Prom the date of its issuance and recordation until the date of the filing in this court of the motion to dismiss a period of three months and more elapsed, and in the meantime and something like sixty days before the filing of the motion plaintiffs in error had, if the statement brought here by the movants is true, paid all the costs which had accrued “in and about the said suit up to the time when said writ of error was prayed,” and had prior to the filing of the motion, filed in this court a transcript of the record of the proceedings and their brief on the merits. In this situation defendants in error will be-held, at the time of filing their motion to dismiss, to have waived any benefits to which they may have been entitled under this statute.

¶6The motion to dismiss is denied.

Browne, C. <J., and Taylor, Whitfield and Ellis, J. J., concur.
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