Bennett v. Continental Chemicals, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that strict compliance with rule 1.440 is mandatory and disapproving local practice of attorney setting case for trial by reserving time on judge’s calendar and sending notice to other party
• noting that the case was not at issue at the time the notice for final hearing was served, as “no answer had yet been filed crystallizing the issues”
• noting disapproval of similar local practice in Padgett v. First Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass'n of Santa Rosa County, 378 So.2d 58 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979)
• fundamental error to set case which was not yet at issue for trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).