Case ID: fla_47/html/0135-01.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

F. H. Cobb, Jr., Plaintiff in Error, v. County of Santa Rosa, Defendant in Error.
    
    A judgment for costs only will not support a writ of error.
    This case was decided by the court En Banc.
    
    Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Santa Rosa county.
    The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
    
      Thos. F. West for plaintiff in error.
    
      A. G. Campbell for defendant in error.
   Per Curiam.

— Upon the trial of an action for trespass the jury found for the defendant, whereupon the following judgment alone was entered: “It is ordered by the court that the defendant do have and recover of and from the plaintiff its costs expended in and about their suit.”

Such a judgment will not support a writ of error. Hall v. Paterson, 45 Fla. 353, 33 South. Rep. 982; Haynes v. Bramlett, 46 Fla. 348, 35 South. Rep. 3; Birmingham Trust & Sav. Co. v. Jackson County Mill Company, 46 Fla. 236, 35 South. Rep. —.

Writ of error dismissed.

All-concur, except Taylor, C. J., absent on account of sickness.