White v. Crandall

143 So. 871, 137 So. 272, 105 Fla. 70

Opinions

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] [EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] While in procedural matters a wide discretion is accorded the trial court, yet in the absence of anything to indicate trifling with the processes of the court, a final judgment on demurrer to pleas should not in general be rendered the same day an order sustaining a demurrer is filed for record, where the defendant or his counsel has no knowledge or notice of the order sustaining the demurrer without leave to amend, or of the application for final judgment made the same day the order on the demurrer is filed for record.