Case ID: so2d_261/html/0133-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

EASTERN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, a Florida corporation, Petitioner, v. Thomas EGAN, Respondent.
    No. 41171.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    March 29, 1972.
    Rehearing Denied May, 17, 1972.
    Robert A. Jarvis, Jr., of Shutts & Bowen, Miami, for petitioner.
    Frates, Floyd, Pearson & Stewart, Miami, for respondent.
   PER CURIAM.

The petition for writ of certiorari reflected probable jurisdiction in this Court. After argument and upon further consideration, we have determined the writ was improvidently issued. The writ must be and is discharged and the petition is dismissed.

It is so ordered.

ERVIN, CARLTON, BOYD, McCAIN and DEKLE, JJ., concur.

ROBERTS, C. J., dissents with opinion.

ROBERTS, Chief Justice

(dissenting) :

I respectfully dissent because in my opinion it was error to strike the defense of statute of limitations which would have barred the claim. The respondent-plaintiff had too little, entirely too late.