Hollifield v. Renew & Co., Inc.
Decision Date | 12 June 2009 |
Docket Number | No. 1D08-3677.,1D08-3677. |
Citation | 18 So.3d 616 |
Parties | Ric HOLLIFIELD, Petitioner, v. RENEW & CO., INC., a Florida corporation, and Robert J. Stout, individually, Respondents. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Sidney L. Matthew of Sidney L. Matthew, P.A., Tallahassee, for Respondents.
By way of petition for a writ of certiorari, Ric Hollifield seeks review of a trial court order that republished a prior non-final order so that respondents could take a timely appeal in Case No. 1D08-3749. We grant the petition because the circuit court departed from the essential requirements of law in utilizing Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.540 to allow an otherwise untimely notice of appeal. We conclude that petitioner has shown sufficient harm to invoke our jurisdiction because he would otherwise be required to appear in an appeal as to which this court has no jurisdiction.
Contrary to the trial court's conclusion, this case is not controlled by Pompi v. City of Jacksonville, 872 So.2d 931 (Fla. 1st DCA 2004), whose holding applies to cases where the court or court staff substantially contributed to counsel's failure to file a timely notice of appeal. Pompi and similar cases "all involve situations in which a party's ability to file a notice of appeal in a timely manner was stymied or hindered by action attributable to the trial court or the clerk." David M. Dresdner, M.D., P.A. v. Charter Oak Fire Ins. Co., 972 So.2d 275, 280 (Fla. 2d DCA 2008). In Pompi, counsel excusably missed the deadline for appealing a judgment whose date of rendition was so confusing on its face that a court clerk replicated counsel's mistake in misreading the date stamp. 872 So.2d at 933. Whatever else may be said of the order at issue here, no action attributable to the circuit court or court personnel contributed to counsel's neglect in failing to take a timely appeal. Rather, as counsel conceded, the neglect occurred entirely in his office. The trial court did not have authority to grant relief from judgment under such circumstances. See Dresdner, 972 So.2d at 276 ( ); accord Woldarsky v. Woldarsky, 243 So.2d 629, 630 (Fla. 1st DCA 1971) ( ).
As an alternative ground for issuance of the writ, our review discloses that Rule 1.540(b), under which the trial court granted relief, does not authorize relief from the type of order involved in this case. Rule 1.540 authorizes a trial court to grant relief "from a final judgment, decree, order, or proceeding"—not from a non-final order such as that at issue here. Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.540(b); see Hialeah Hotel, Inc. v. Woods, 778 So.2d 314, 315 (Fla. 3d DCA 2000) ( ); Badger v. Badger, 568 So.2d 79, 80 (Fla. 4th DCA 1990) ( ...
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