Case Name: R. E. Olds and Truman H. Newberry v. Dean Alvord, et al.
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1939-06-20
Citations: 139 Fla. 1
Docket Number: 
Parties: R. E. Olds and Truman H. Newberry v. Dean Alvord, et al.
Judges: Whitfield, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 139
Pages: 1–43

Head Matter:
R. E. Olds and Truman H. Newberry v. Dean Alvord, et al.
En Banc
191 So. 434
Opinion Filed June 20, 1939
Rehearing Denied August 2, 1939
Edgar John Phillips, Harry L. Thompson and /. Tweed McMullen, for Appellants;
Rankin & Jordan, D. G. Haley, Mabry, Reeves, Carlton & White and Milam, Mcllvaine & Milam, for Appellants.
Dickenson & Dickenson, Hull, Landis & Whitehair and Storey, Thorndike & Dodge (Boston, Mass.) as amici cv.riac.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
After the mandate had been recalled and a rehearing granted in this cause, by an order of December 6, 1938, counsel for appellees on January 10, 1939, filed a motion, "to set aside and strike from its records the pretended order entered in said cause on December 6, 1938, whereby (1) the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Pinellas County was directed to return to the clerk of this Court the mandate theretofore issued in said cause; (2) the extraordinary petition of appellants for rehearing was attempted to be granted: and (3) the cause was directed to be submitted in due course," the grounds of the motion being stated.
On March 20, 1939, the Court made the following order in this cause:
"This cause having been submitted to the Court upon motion of counsel for appellees to set aside and strike from its record the order entered therein on December 6, 1938, which motion has been argued by counsel for the respective parties and duly considered by the Court, it is thereupon ordered by the Court that the above styled cause be set down for oral argument on the merits at 10:00 o'clock A. M. Monday, March 27th, instant."
On June 1, 1939, counsel for appellees filed a motion. "To cease reconsidering the said cause on its merits and desist from further reconsideration thereof, to set aside and strike from its records the order of December 6, 1938, made by three Judges only of this Honorable Court whereby a rehearing was attempted to be granted, and to return to the lower court the mandate of this Honorable Court heretofore issued."
One of the grounds of the motion is that: "If this Honorable Court should reach the conclusion that the decree appealed from should be reversed, the Court would be without power to enter a decree of reversal since to do so would take the property of appellees: to-wit, the decree appealed from and the rights of appellees thereunder, without due process of law, contrary to and in violation of Section 12 of the Declaration of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. "
The Court having drily considered said motions filed in this cause on January 10, 1939, and June 1, 1939, it is now ordered by the Court that each of such motions be and is hereby denied because the Court is evenly divided and the motions could only be granted by the affirmative action of the majority of the Court participating in the disposition of such motion.
Whitfield, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.
Terrell, Chapman and Thomas, J. J., dissent.