Case Name: FOUNDATION WELL POINT CORPORATION OF FLORIDA and Eddie Bee Paulk, Appellants, v. Sara Lee Knight BAUMAN and Alfred Jerome Bauman, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1983-09-06
Citations: 437 So. 2d 729
Docket Number: No. 83-175
Parties: FOUNDATION WELL POINT CORPORATION OF FLORIDA and Eddie Bee Paulk, Appellants, v. Sara Lee Knight BAUMAN and Alfred Jerome Bauman, Appellees.
Judges: Before HENDRY, NESBITT and BAS-KIN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 437
Pages: 729–730

Head Matter:
FOUNDATION WELL POINT CORPORATION OF FLORIDA and Eddie Bee Paulk, Appellants, v. Sara Lee Knight BAUMAN and Alfred Jerome Bauman, Appellees.
No. 83-175.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Sept. 6, 1983.
Rehearing Denied Oct. 7, 1983.
Wicker, Smith, Blomqvist, Tutan, O’Hara, McCoy, Graham & Lane and Richard Sherman, Miami, for appellants.
Franklin D. Kreutzer and Steven R. Do-brofsky, Miami, for appellees.
Before HENDRY, NESBITT and BAS-KIN, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We reverse the order denying the defendant's motion to set aside a default upon a holding that: (a) an affidavit setting forth a general denial satisfies the requirement that the defendant must present a meritorious defense, North Shore Hospital, Inc. v. Barber; 143 So.2d 849 (Fla.1962); and (b) the corporation's inadvertence in failing to deliver suit papers to counsel representing the appellant was excusable neglect where separate complaints were filed at the same time on behalf of two plaintiffs against the same defendants, arising out of the same accident and the corporate agent mistakenly thought that the papers represented multiple copies of the same complaint.