Title: Revitz v. Baya

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

355 So. 2d 1170 (1977)
Robert REVITZ, Petitioner,
v.
George J. BAYA and Mary Phillips Baya, Respondents.
No. 51789.

Supreme Court of Florida.
November 10, 1977.
Rehearing Denied April 5, 1978.
*1171 Richard L. Lapidus, of Lapidus & Hollander, Miami, for petitioner.
L.J. Cushman, Miami, for respondents.
KARL, Justice.
This cause is before us on petition for writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal, Third District, to review its decision in Baya v. Revitz, reported at 345 So. 2d 340 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1977). The District Court of Appeal has certified the following question to this Court:
However, in the decision of the District Court under review, that court expressly stated:
Article V, Section 3(b)(3), Florida Constitution, provides, in pertinent part, that the Supreme Court "[m]ay review by certiorari any decision of a district court of appeal ... that passes upon a question certified by a district court of appeal to be of great public interest... ." (Emphasis supplied.)
Since, sub judice, the District Court specifically found it unnecessary to pass upon the question now certified to this Court, we are without jurisdiction to consider and decide the question.[1]
*1172 Accordingly, the writ of certiorari is hereby discharged.
It is so ordered.
ADKINS, Acting C.J., and ENGLAND, SUNDBERG and HATCHETT, JJ., concur.
[1]  In Duggan v. Tomlinson, 174 So. 2d 393 (Fla. 1965), this Court observed:

"The constitutional provision just quoted limits our certiorari review in these instances to those decisions of such district courts which pass upon a question certified by such courts to be of great public interest."
Cf. Cleveland v. City of Miami, 263 So. 2d 573 (Fla. 1972).