Case ID: so2d_488/html/0864-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION, Appellant, v. DELTINA FOODS, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellee.
    No. 85-346.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    May 13, 1986.
    Rehearing Denied June 13, 1986.
    Stephen T. Onuska, Miami, for appellant.
    Goldberg, Friedman & Greenberg and Robert D. Friedman, Miami, for appellee.
    Before HENDRY, NESBITT and JOR-GENSON, JJ.
   PER'CURIAM.

The appealed final order denying appellant's motion for relief from final judgment by default is reversed upon a holding that appellant’s motion and supporting affidavits established the requisite excusable neglect, Fla.R.Civ.P. 1.540(b), as well as a meritorious defense. See North Shore Hospital, Inc. v. Barber, 143 So.2d 849 (Fla.1962); S.B. Partners v. Holmes, 479 So.2d 280 (Fla. 2d DCA 1985); Florida Aviation Academy v. Charter Air Center, Inc., 449 So.2d 350 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984); General Finance Corp. of Florida v. Northside Bank of Miami, 212 So.2d 917 (Fla. 3d DCA 1968).

We find to be without merit appellant’s claim of error relative to the trial court’s denial of its motion to quash final judgment on grounds of improper service of process.

Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded for further proceedings.