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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Dennis SMITH, Appellant, v. HOME INSURANCE COMPANY and American Foreign Insurance Association, d/b/a A. F. I. A. Home Indemnity Company, Appellees.
    No. 77-2574.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Sept. 27, 1978.
    
      Larry Klein, and Cone, Owen, Wagner, Nugent, Johnson & McKeown, P. A., West Palm Beach, for appellant.
    Eugene L. Heinrich of MeCune, Hiaasen, Crum, Ferris & Gardner, Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.
   PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

DOWNEY, C. J., and MOORE, J., concur.

BERANEK, J., dissents with opinion.

BERANEK, Judge,

dissenting:

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order vacating a default. The only proof in support of the motion to vacate the default was the sworn motion itself. This motion was sworn to by counsel of record and although counsel obviously had certain facts within his own personal knowledge, the affidavit contains numerous statements which could not have been within his personal knowledge. Realizing that speed was essential in the filing of the motion, I would reverse the trial court on the sole basis that the attorney’s affidavit supporting the motion was insufficient. I would, therefore, reverse and remand with instructions to allow the taking of supplemental evidence in support of the motion to vacate.