Case ID: so2d_412/html/0945-01.html
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Joseph MAZER, Appellant, v. JEFFERSON STORES, INC., a Delaware corporation, Appellee.
    No. 81-1332.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    April 20, 1982.
    
      Shelding Golding, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.
    Fuller & Feingold and Lawrence A. Fuller, Miami Beach, for appellee.
    Before SCHWARTZ and DANIEL S. PEARSON and FERGUSON, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

The trial court has the inherent power to impose the sanction of dismissal for a plaintiff’s willful failure to comply with its order, the lawfulness of which was challenged only by plaintiff’s adamant refusal to answer certain questions on deposition. See Surrency v. Winn & Lovett Grocery Company, 160 Fla. 294, 34 So.2d 564 (1948); Warriner v. Ferraro, 177 So.2d 723 (Fla. 3d DCA 1965).

Affirmed.