Ferry Pass Shippers & Inspectors' Ass'n v. Pensacola Lumber Co.

Citations

• 65 Fla. 313
• 61 So. 639

Syllabus

<p>1. Section 1609 of the General Statutes provides, that no judgment after verdict shall be reversed for any faulty count in the declaration where the declaration contains one good count.</p> <p>2. Where a corporation authorized to do so engaged in the bush ness of measuring and inspecting timber for the public for hire and issuing specifications thereof and boom receipts therefor, for the use of the public in purchasing and selling timber, negligently gives certificates of inspection and thereby injures a purchaser, there may be liability in an action for damages even though the person who signed the inspection certificates for the defendant corporation is a licensed timber inspector under the statutes of the State; and the negotiable character of the certificates is immaterial</p> <p>3. The striking of special pleas may be immaterial where the defenses stated in the stricken pleas are allowed to be made under the general issue.</p>