Ropes v. Eldridge
Citations
- 39 Fla. 47
Syllabus
<p>1. An appeal in a common law case will be dismissed where the record does not show that a final judgment has been entered in the trial court.</p> <p>2. An entry in the record “on motion of plaintiff a juror was withdrawn and a nonsuit entered” does not constitute a final judgment.</p>
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- stating that “a court must consider the consequences that would follow from its construction of a statute and avoid absurd results”
- officer’s recital that he had received information about the defendant’s possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia in his home from a confidential informant within the past 24 hours provided further support for the warrant to issue
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Carter
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