Brown v. U.S. Bank Nat'l Ass'n, 4D12–4612.
Decision Date | 26 June 2013 |
Docket Number | No. 4D12–4612.,4D12–4612. |
Citation | 117 So.3d 823 |
Parties | Fred BROWN and Margaret Croney–Brown, Appellants, v. U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee for the Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust, 2005–9; Trailwood Homeowners Association, Inc.; John Doe and Jane Doe, as unknown tenants in possession; and any and all unknown Parties Claiming by, Through, Under, and against the herein named individual defendant(s) who are not known to be dead or alive, whether said unknown parties may claim an interest as Spouses, Heirs, Devisees, Grantees or other Claimants, Appellees. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
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Thomas Erskine Ice of Ice Appellate, Royal Palm Beach, for appellants.
Dean A. Morande and Michael K. Winston of Carlton Fields, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellee U.S. Bank National Association.
This appeal arises from the trial court's denial of appellant Margaret Croney–Brown's motion to quash service of process in the underlying foreclosure proceedings. In their initial brief, appellants (Mrs. Croney–Brown and her husband) argue that appellee U.S. Bank National Association (the “Bank”) failed to meet its burden of showing that it effectuated valid service of process by strictly complying with the service of process statutes. Section 48.031(5), Florida Statutes (2009), requires the process server to note the actual date and time of service on the summons. See alsoFla. R. Civ. P. 1.070(e) ( ). When a process server fails to strictly comply with these rules, service must be quashed. See Kwong v. Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, L.P., 54 So.3d 1033, 1034 (Fla. 4th DCA 2011); Schupak v. Sutton Hill Assocs., 710 So.2d 707, 708 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998) (). In this instance, the Bank's process server placed the wrong date on Mrs. Croney–Brown's summons, 1 a fact which the Bank never disputed.
Appellants further contend that Mrs. Croney–Brown did not waive the defect in service by making discovery requests and moving for sanctions (for failure to comply with court order compelling discovery).2 These motions, which were purely defensive in nature, could not be maintained “independently of plaintiff's claim,” and thus, were not requests for affirmative relief. See Heineken v. Heineken, 683 So.2d 194, 197 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996) ( )(quoting Grange Ins. Ass'n v. State, 110 Wash.2d 752, 757 P.2d 933, 940 (1988) (en banc) (quoting Black's Law...
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