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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CLOUETTE v FLORIDA CARPET CORP.
    Case No. 89-304-AP
    Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Dade County
    March 15, 1990
    APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    Patricia A. Clouette, pro se.
    Stephanie L. Mullís, Esquire, Blaire & Cole, for appellee.
    Before JONES, BLOOM, GREENBAUM, JJ.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

BLOOM, J.

The alias summons was properly served. Defendant was then and there put on actual notice of a claim against her. No prejudice was shown. Technical defects are to be disregarded where no prejudice results. See Hotel & Rest, v Lake Buena Vista, 349 So.2d 1217 (Fla. 4th DCA 1977); see also American Hospital of Miami, Inc. v Bateman, 498 So.2d 444 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986), at p. 445:

We reject American’s claim that this hypertechnical defect in the summons required the trial court to quash the service. The purpose of service of process is to give a defendant proper notice that it is answerable to a plaintiffs claim, to advise the defendant of the nature of that claim, and to afford the defendant an opportunity to defend against it.

AFFIRMED.

JONES and GREENBAUM, JJ., Concur.