72 Fla. 116 | Fla. | 1916
—This is an appeal by the Oneida Land Company, a corporation, from an interlocutory order made on the 16th day of November, 1915, granting the motion of the complainants to strike the answer of the defendant. Such answer was filed, as was also the motion to strike the same, under the provisions of Chapter 6907 of the Laws of Florida, Vol. 1 of the Acts of 1915, page 245. Several interesting questions are presented on this appeal, but we are precluded the consideration of the same for the reasons which we shall now proceed to state.
Upon the presentation of a certified copy of the transcript of the record, the clerk’s certificate appended thereto reciting that “the foregoing is a true and correct copy of all pleadings, orders, motions and other papers filed in the above case by both parties up to and including the
“It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the said bill of complaint be taken for confessed against the said defendant Oneida Land Company Inc;., a corporation.”
We further find that the appeal from the interlocutory order striking the answer of the defendant was not entered until the 24th day of February, 1916, nearly a week after the rendering of the final decree, though the transcript does not show when the final decree was filed in the clerk’s office or recorded in the minutes of the court. See the discussion in Dees v. Cook, 58 Fla. 420, 51 South, Rep. 138.
As we have several times held, “An appeal in an equity cause, taken subsequently to the rendition of a final decree therein, solely and expressly from an interlocutory order therein, that does not bring up such final decree for review, cannot be considered by the appellate court and will be dismissed.” Stanley v. Standard Cypress Co., 54
As the parties litigant have proceeded to argue the interesting questions presented on this appeal, it is a source of regret to us that we cannot consider and pass upon them, but, as is held in the cited cases, the appeal must be dismissed.
Taylor, C. J., and Cockrell, Whitfield and Ellis, JJ., concur.