Birmingham Trust & Savings Co. v. Jackson County Mill Co.

46 Fla. 236

• Court: Supreme Court of Florida
• Decided: June 15, 1903
• Status: Published

Opinion

Per Curiam.

This was an action of assumpsit instituted by plaintiff in error against defendant in error in the Circuit Court of Jackson county. It appears from the record that on June 13th, 1901, a trial was had, and that the jury returned a verdict in favor of defendant. Thereupon the following judgment was entered: “It is, therefore, considered by the court and it is the judgment of the court that the said Jackson County Mill Company, a corporation, do have and recover of and from the said plaintiff Birmingham Trust' & Savings Co., corporation, the costs here taxed in the sum of forty and 77-100 dollars, to-be levied of the lands and tenements, goods and chattels of said plaintiff to defendant rendered, and that execution issue therefor.” This is the only entry purporting to be a final judgment.

In Hall v. Patterson, 45 Fla. 353, 33 South. Rep. 982, and Haynes v. Bramlett, 46 Fla. supra, 35 Sputh. Rep. 3, it was held that a judgment for costs alone, though entered for defendant after the jury have found a verdict in his favor, is not such final judgment as will support a writ of error.

The judgment here entered is not, under the authority of said cited cases, such a final judgment as will support the writ of error here taken, and the writ must, therefore, be dismissed, and it is so ordered, at the cost of plaintiff in error.

Taylor, C. J., and Shackleford and Hooker, JJ., concur. Carter, J., concurs in the opinion. Carter and Maxwell, JJ., disqualified.