Case ID: so2d_356/html/1298-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Robert A. SHUPACK, Appellant, v. ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY, a Foreign Corporation for profit, Appellee.
    No. 77-407.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    March 28, 1978.
    Harold M. Braxton, Miami, for appellant.
    Adams, George, Schulte & Ward and Amy Shield Levine, Miami, for appellee.
    
      Before HENDRY, NATHAN and KE-HOE, JJ.
   KEHOE, Judge.

Appellant, plaintiff below, appeals from an order, in an action at law, granting appellee’s motion for summary judgment. The decretal portion of the trial court’s order reads:

“Ordered and adjudged that the motion for summary judgment be, and the same is hereby granted.”

This order is merely authorization for a final judgment. It does not constitute a final judgment, nor is it an order from which an interlocutory appeal could properly lie. See Harris v. Mosteller, 253 So.2d 275 (Fla. 2d DCA 1971); Arnold v. Brady, 178 So.2d 732 (Fla. 2d DCA 1965); Lyden v. DePiera, 147 So.2d 573 (Fla. 3d DCA 1962); Stone v. Buckley, 119 So.2d 298 (Fla. 2d DCA 1960); Chastain v. Embry, 118 So.2d 33 (Fla. 2d DCA 1960); Elliott v. Lazar, 104 So.2d 618 (Fla. 2d DCA 1958); and Renard v. Kirkeby Hotels, 99 So.2d 719 (Fla. 3d DCA 1958).

We recognize our authority to treat the appeal before the court as a petition for certiorari; however, we decline to do so and dismiss the appeal sua sponte.

Appeal dismissed.