Case ID: fla_41/html/0470-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The National Bank of Lancaster, a corporation under the laws of the United States, et al., Appellants, vs. A. P. Newheart, M. E. Newheart and B. M. Burdette, Appellees.
    Appellate Practice — Parties to Appeals- — Abbreviation “et dl.” Insufficient to Designate Parties to Appeal.
    All parties jointly affected by a joint decree appealed from are necessary parties to such appeal, and should be individually named therein. They can not be included in such appeal by the use- of the abbreviation “et al.” Parties appellant omitted from an appeal can not be made parties thereto after the expiration of the time prescribed by law for taking appeals.
    Appeal from the Circuit Court for Orange county.
    The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
    
      
      Beggs & Palmer, for Appellants.
    
      Jones & Jones, for Appellees.
   Per Curiam :

This cause coining on for adjudication upon a rehearing thereof heretofore granted, and it appearing to the court that the decree appealed from is a joint decree against the only appellant before the court and several others who are- not made parties to the appeal except by the use of the abbreviation “et al.,” which is ineffectual, and that said several omitted parties are necessary parties appellant,.and can not now be brought in as parties appellant because the time has expired in which they can take an appeal, it is, therefore, ordered that the appeal in said cause be, and the same is, hereby dismissed. State ex rel. Andreu v. Canfield, 40 Fla. 36, 23 South. Rep. 591; Cornell v. Franklin, 40 Fla. 149, 23 South. Rep. 589; Whitlock v. Willard, 18 Fla. 156; Castleman v. Holmes, 7 T. B. Mon. (Ky.) 591.