Case Name: Robert E. LAWLER, M.D., Appellant, v. Tyree W. HARRIS, etc., et al., Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1982-09-08
Citations: 418 So. 2d 1239
Docket Number: No. 81-1623
Parties: Robert E. LAWLER, M.D., Appellant, v. Tyree W. HARRIS, etc., et al., Appellees.
Judges: DAUKSCH, J., concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 418
Pages: 1239–1241

Head Matter:
Robert E. LAWLER, M.D., Appellant, v. Tyree W. HARRIS, etc., et al., Appellees.
No. 81-1623.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Sept. 8, 1982.
Joe Teague Caruso of Wolfe, Kirschen-baum, Caruso, Mosely & Kabboord, P.A., Cocoa Beach, for appellant.
Henry J. Martocci, Cocoa, for appellees Oliver.
Harry Anderson of Anderson & Hurt, P.A., Orlando, for appellees Wuesthoff Memorial Hospital, Tyree W. Harris and M.M. Buchanan.

Opinion:
COBB, Judge.
This is an appeal from an order stating "that the Defendants' Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs Second Amended Complaint be, and the same is hereby granted, with prejudice." The question of the finality of such an order for purposes of appeal has been considered by two other District Courts of Appeal, with conflicting results. The Fourth District has held it to be a final, appealable order. Cordani v. Roulis, 395 So.2d 1276 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981); Segal v. Garrigues, 320 So.2d 475 (Fla. 4th DCA 1975). The Third District, in an opinion by Judge Pearson, has held that an order granting a motion to dismiss with prejudice is neither a judgment nor a final dismissal, the words "with prejudice" actually adding nothing of legal consequence, and therefore such is not a final, appealable order. Gries Investment Co. v. Chelton, 388 So.2d 1281 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980). Cf. Taylor v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co., 405 So.2d 1070 (Fla. 5th DCA 1981).
We concur, in regard to the order's lack of finality, with the Gries opinion. We also agree with its solution to the problem: a temporary relinquishment, of an inchoate jurisdiction rather than a non-productive and wasteful dismissal of the cause. Gries, 388 So.2d at 1282 n.4. See also Dade County Classroom Teachers' Association, Inc. v. State Board of Education, 269 So.2d 657 (Fla. 1972); Clemons v. Flagler Hospital, Inc., 385 So.2d 1134 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980); WBD, Inc. v. Howard Johnson Company, 382 So.2d 1323 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980), review denied, 388 So.2d 1114 (Fla. 1980); Sloman v. Florida Power & Light Company, 382 So.2d 834 (Fla. 4th DCA 1980).
We also note for the benefit of the trial court and the parties that, in the event that a final order is entered by the trial court, it should state with particularity .the names of the defendants dismissed. There has been some confusion at the appellate level as to the proper appellees in this case, specifically as to the defendants Robert P. Oliver and Jane Oliver.
Accordingly, we relinquish jurisdiction to the trial court and remand this cause for thirty (30) days so that the parties may procure an appropriate final order of dismissal.
RELINQUISHED AND REMANDED.
DAUKSCH, J., concurs.
COWART, J., dissents with opinion.