Case Name: Herbert R. LINICK, Appellant, v. Dorothy LAMM, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1962-06-19
Citations: 143 So. 2d 63
Docket Number: No. 62-75
Parties: Herbert R. LINICK, Appellant, v. Dorothy LAMM, Appellee.
Judges: Before PEARSON, TILLMAN, C. J., and CARROLL and HENDRY, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 143
Pages: 63–63

Head Matter:
Herbert R. LINICK, Appellant, v. Dorothy LAMM, Appellee.
No. 62-75.
District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.
June 19, 1962.
Melvin I. Muroff, Miami Beach, for appellant.
Charles C. Hoffman, So. Miami, for ap-pellee.
Before PEARSON, TILLMAN, C. J., and CARROLL and HENDRY, JJ.

Opinion:
PEARSON, TILLMAN, Chief Judge.
We have been presented with a motion by appellant to strike a condition in a supersedeas bond. The appeal is from a final decree for plaintiff in a chattel mortgage foreclosure. The appellant-movant was not the mortgagor but contests the lien of the mortgage.
The order granting supersedeas and fixing terms and conditions of the bond provides that the bond should be " conditioned to pay all costs and damages, including attorney's fee." A trial court is without authority to require as a condition of a supersedeas bond that attorney's fees be paid by the appellant as a part of the expense of an appeal from a final decree. Bernstein v. Bernstein, Fla.1949, 43 So.2d 356; Larson v. Higginbotham, Fia.1953, 66 So.2d 40.
It is our view that this rule has not been changed by Ritter v. Bentley, Fla.1955, 78 So.2d 573, inasmuch as the holding in that case is confined by the opinion to an action by a plaintiff upon a defaulted bond.
Accordingly, the motion is granted and the condition that the appellant pay attorney's fee is stricken from the order and the bond.
It is so ordered.