54 Fla. 480 | Fla. | 1907
— This cause came on at this day upon a petition filed by the appellant praying for a re-instatement of the cause upon the dockets of this court — the same having been heretofore, on June 19th, 1907, dismissed here. The cause was heretofore dismissed upon two grounds, vis: (1) Because the appeal was entered on November 21st, 1906, and was made returnable to the June term, 1907, of this court, thereby jumping over the January term, 1907, to which under the law such appeal should have been made returnable and the transcript of record in the cause was not filed here until the first day of June, 1907.
(2). Because the appeal was from a decree in a suit for partition and yet only two of the parties to such suit were made parties to the appeal, vis: Samuel S. Lowe as sole party appellant, and Amelia E. DeLaney as party appellee. The entry of appeal attempts to include other unknown parties as appellees by the use of the abbreviation “et albut, as was held in the cases of state ex rel. Andreu v. Canfield, 40 Fla. 36, 23 South. Rep. 591, and Cornell v. Franklin, 40 Fla. 149, 23 South. Rep. 589, the use of such an abbreviation does not include anyone as a party to an appeal except such as are expressly and fully named in the appeal. It was held in the same cases that the amendment of an appeal by bringing in new parties appellant was as to such new parties an appeal entered for the first time at the date of such amendment, and that such an amendment bring
All concur.