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97 Fla. 230

120 So 328

Beugnot v. Gober

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided February 19, 1929

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1929-02-19

Relies on Fagan v. Robbins Ex Rel. Robbins

Decided 1929-02-19

Long (Circuit Judge) :

¶1 The petition for rehearing in this cause suggests that this Court in affirming the judgment of the lower court overlooked the opinion in Fagan v. Robbins, 96 Fla. 91, 117 So. R. 863, because at the time of the entry of the deficiency decree complained of the Circuit Judge was of the opinion that under the provisions of Chapter 7839, Acts of 1919, it became mandatory for him to do so. Irrespective of what might have been in the mind of the lower court, the fact remains that an affidavit of illegality is not applicable to a decree that was not illegal, and while the chancellor may have labored under the belief that he had no discretion in the matter, that fact alone would not render the deficiency decree illegal.

¶2 No appeal having been taken from the entry of the deficiency decree such decree is still binding on the plaintiff in error.

¶3 Rehearing denied.

Whitfield, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.
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