54 Fla. 520 | Fla. | 1907
— On December 3rd, 1906, Joseph N. Clinton filed an affidavit in the circuit court for Alachua county under section 1624 et seq. of the General Statutes of Florida alleging the illegality of an execution
The proceeding taken by Clinton was not an application to the court from which the execution issued to control its own process. See Barnett v. Hickson, 52 Fla. 457, 41 South. Rep. 606; section 1625 General Statutes of Florida of 1906.
By special statutory provisions an affidavit of illegality and proceeding thereon may be had when the legality of an execution is thereby properly brought into question. The proceedings are purely statutory and are at law and not in equity. Even though the execution alleged to be illegal had issued upon a deficiency decree in a mortgage foreclosure proceeding in equity, (the filing of an affidavit of illegality of the execution and the action of the court thereon constitute an original statutory proceeding at law and are not a continuation of the foreclosure proceedings in equity.
The only appeals allowed by the statutes from orders and judgments entered by the circuit courts and circuit judges are from decrees and orders in equity and. probate causes. Secs. 1710, 1906 et seq. General Statutes of 1906; Finch v. Bonar, 46 Fla. 246, 35 South. Rep. 189; Montgomery v. Thomas, 40 Fla. 450, 25 South. Rep. 62.
As no writ of error appears to have been issued in this cause and as the appeal entered gives this court no jurisdiction of the cause, the appeal must be dismissed, and it is so ordered.
Shackleford, C. J., and Cockrell, J., concur;
Taylor, Hocker and Parkhill, JJ., concur in the opinion.