Case ID: so2d_521/html/0156-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Robert K. MARCECA, Appellant, v. SOUTHEAST BANK, N.A., a National Banking Association, Appellee. Robert K. MARCECA, Appellant, v. SOUTHEAST BANK, N.A., and Rablin-West Interiors, Appellees.
    Nos. 87-0480, 87-0508.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Feb. 3, 1988.
    Rehearing Denied March 31, 1988.
    Steven W. Davis of Broad and Cassel, Miami, for appellant.
    Stephen C. Page and Lee B. David of Gunster, Yoakley, Criser & Stewart, P.A., Stuart, for appellee-Southeast Bank, N.A.
   PER CURIAM.

We affirm the trial court’s refusal to set aside a default because the record supports the trial court’s conclusion that the defaulted party’s out-of-state attorney either intentionally or through gross neglect ignored the necessity to respond in court to the summons and complaint served upon the appellant and delivered to his attorney. See Somero v. Hendry General Hospital, 467 So.2d 1103, 1105 (Fla. 4th DCA), petition for review denied, 476 So.2d 674 (Fla.1985).

ANSTEAD, J., and SALMON, MICHAEL H., Associate Judge, concur.

GLICKSTEIN, J., concurs specially with opinion.

GLICKSTEIN, Judge,

concurring specially.

I concur that the trial court did not err in finding that there was not excusable neglect. Whether that was attributable to the defendant or his out-of-state attorney, or both, is unclear to me.