Wiggins v. Sylvester

Citations

• 79 Fla. 232
• 83 So. 876

Syllabus

<p>1. Under the statute writs of error lie only from final judgments and from orders granting new trials.</p> <p>2. Where no final judgment upon the merits of the cause in an action at law appears in the transcript of the record brought to the Supreme Court on writ of error to such a judgment, the writ of error will be dismissed at the cost of the plaintiff in error.</p> <p>3. Under the provisions of Section 1691 of the General Statutes of 1906, writs of error lie only from final judgments, and from orders granting new tyials, and when a transcript of record carried by writ of error to the appellate court for review fails to show a final judgment in the cause such writ of error will be dismissed by the court ex proprio motu.</p>