Case ID: so2d_427/html/0393-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LETTS, Chief Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John William CALDER, Appellant, v. Lynn C. McNESS, individually and f/u/b/o Allstate Insurance Company and Industrial Fire & Casualty Company, Appellees.
    No. 82-1006.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    March 9, 1983.
    
      Don Lacy, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.
    David L. Jordan of Birr, Bryant & Saier, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.
   LETTS, Chief Judge.

A default was properly entered against a defendant in a civil suit involving unliquidated damages. However, the final judgment which followed fixed the damages without any trial or notice to the defendant of any kind. We reverse.

A party against whom a default has been entered, is entitled to notice in an action involving unliquidated damages before a final judgment awarding damages can be entered. B/G Amusements, Inc. v. Mystery Fun House, Inc., 381 So.2d 318 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980) and Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.440(c).

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

HERSEY and WALDEN, JJ., concur.