Case ID: so2d_651/html/1314-02.html
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Author: {"author": "SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Olga SKLAR, Appellant, v. Ann BRAWLEY, Appellee.
    No. 94-640.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    March 22, 1995.
    Popper & Popper and Victor K. Rones, for appellant.
    Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, Stanley B. Price and Eileen Ball MaJhta, for appellee.
    Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARKDULL and BASKIN, JJ.
   SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

Because the plaintiff improperly took a default without notice after communicating with opposing counsel, who clearly indicated his intention to defend on the merits, see Ole, Inc. v. Yariv, 566 So.2d 812 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990); Gulf Maintenance & Supply, Inc. v. Barnett Bank of Tallahassee, 543 So.2d 813 (Fla. 1st DCA 1989), the default should have been set aside whether or not the answer raised a meritorious defense. Cardet v. Resolution Trust Corp., 563 So.2d 167, 169 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990); J.A.R., Inc. v. Universal Am. Realty Corp., 485 So.2d 467 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986); Chester, Blackburn & Roder, Inc. v. Marchese, 383 So.2d 734, 735 n. 3 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980).

Reversed. 
      
      . For this reason we express no view as to whether a “meritorious defense" was in fact presented.