Case ID: fla_17/html/0145-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Westcott", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William Sedgwick, Plaintiff and Appellant, vs. DeWitt C. Dawkins, Defendant and Respondent.
    Every paper Considered by the Circuit Court in its action, whether it was properly considered or not, should be in the return to/this court. A certiorari will be awarded to bring up evidence alleged to have been considered upon a motion in arrest of judgment.
    Appeal from the Circuit Court' for Duval county.
    This is a Code case. The respondent suggested diminution, and moved for a certiorari to the Circuit Court to send up certain papers not appearing in the record on file in the Supreme Court. The appellant opposed the motion on the ground that the papers desired were improperly considered by the Circuit Court.
    
      O. P. Cooper for motion.
    
      II. Bisbee, Jr., contra.
    
   Mr. Justice Westcott

delivered the opinion of the court.

Upon preliminary motions based upon affidavit and suggestion, it is not usual or generally proper for the court to enter into any discussion of questions, which the return discloses are there to be discussed and decided upon the hearing. This is purely and essentially a preliminary motion of this character. The respondent here alleges under oath that the papers sought to be added to the return now on1 file were, at the time of trial, and still remain on file in the-Circuit Court. He also alleges that these papers were to a great extent the basis of the action of the Circuit Court in reaching the conclusion it did, and .the return here shows that they were considered. Admitting, for the purpose of disposing of this 'motion, that the papers here sought to be brought up are such that could not, accprding to the rules which should have governed the action of the court, have been considered in its action, still, if it is apparent that such papers were considered, then it is evident that we must have them in the record in order to a full and fair review of the action of the Circuit Court.

The error here assigned is the consideration of matters of evidence upon a motion in arrest of judgment, and in the determination of this question it is proper that such evi-ience should be in the return made to this court.

The certiorari is awarded returnable on Friday morning next.