Mendez v. West Flagler Family Ass'n, Inc., 73--815
Decision Date | 13 May 1975 |
Docket Number | No. 73--815,73--815 |
Citation | 315 So.2d 7 |
Parties | Irma MENDEZ, Appellant, v. WEST FLAGLER FAMILY ASSOCIATION, INC., a Florida Corporation, doing business in Dade County, Florida, and Seaboard Life Insurance Company of American, in insurance corporation, Appellees. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Alpert & Alpert, Miami, for appellant.
Heller & Kaplan and L. Richard Mattaway, Robert Spiegel, Miami, for appellees.
Before PEARSON, HAVERFIELD and NATHAN, JJ.
The appellant, Irma Mendez, filed a complaint in the circuit court claiming breach of contract and fraud in connection with the issuance of hospital insurance against the defendants West Flagler Family Association, Inc., and Seaboard Life Insurance Company of America. After proceedings in the nature of discovery, the circuit judge entered a 'summary final judgment' for the defendants on the third count of the plaintiff's second amended complaint. This judgment left pending in the trial court plaintiff's counts I and II which are based upon breach of contract. The plaintiff filed notice of appeal of this court. We treated the notice of appeal as an interlocutory appeal from a partial summary judgment. See FAR 4.2. It thereafter was made to appear by further motion to dismiss that if said order was interlocutory in nature, the appeal was not timely filed inasmuch as jurisdiction depended upon 'rendition' of the order after the denial of a petition for rehearing. We thereupon dismissed the appeal. Upon application for writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court of Florida, that court granted the writ and quashed our decision. The court held in part as follows:
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