Case Name: Pensacola Electric Company, a Corporation, Plaintiff in Error, v. Pauline Humphreys, Defendant in Error
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1911-01
Citations: 61 Fla. 389
Docket Number: 
Parties: Pensacola Electric Company, a Corporation, Plaintiff in Error, v. Pauline Humphreys, Defendant in Error.
Judges: 
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 61
Pages: 389–390

Head Matter:
Pensacola Electric Company, a Corporation, Plaintiff in Error, v. Pauline Humphreys, Defendant in Error.
Where the members of the appellate court are equally divided in opinion as to whether a judgment on writ of error should be reversed or affirmed, and there is no prospects of a change of judicial opinion, the judgment should be affirmed, so that the litigation may not be unduly prolonged.
This case was decided by the cburt En Banc.
Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Escambia County.
The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
Blount & Blount & Garter, for Plaintiff in Error;
B. P. Reese, for Defendant in Error.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This cause having been considered by the court, and Mr. Chief Justice Whitfield, Mr. Justice Taylor and Mr. Justice Shackleford being of opinion that the judgment should be reversed, while Mr. Justice Cockrell, Mr. Justice Hocker and Mr. Justice Parkhill are of opinion that the judgment should be affirmed, and there being no prospect of a change of judicial opinion, the judgment should be affirmed on the authority of State ex rel. Hampton v. McClung, 47 Fla. 224, 37 South. Rep. 51, and it is so ordered.