Case Name: CLOUETTE v. FLORIDA CARPET CORP.
Court: Florida Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1990-03-15
Citations: 40 Fla. Supp. 2d 56
Docket Number: Case No. 89-304-AP
Parties: CLOUETTE v FLORIDA CARPET CORP.
Judges: 
Reporter: Florida Supplement Second
Volume: 40
Pages: 56–57

Head Matter:
CLOUETTE v FLORIDA CARPET CORP.
Case No. 89-304-AP
Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Dade County
March 15, 1990
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Patricia A. Clouette, pro se.
Stephanie L. Mullís, Esquire, Blaire & Cole, for appellee.
Before JONES, BLOOM, GREENBAUM, JJ.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
BLOOM, J.
The alias summons was properly served. Defendant was then and there put on actual notice of a claim against her. No prejudice was shown. Technical defects are to be disregarded where no prejudice results. See Hotel & Rest, v Lake Buena Vista, 349 So.2d 1217 (Fla. 4th DCA 1977); see also American Hospital of Miami, Inc. v Bateman, 498 So.2d 444 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986), at p. 445:
We reject American's claim that this hypertechnical defect in the summons required the trial court to quash the service. The purpose of service of process is to give a defendant proper notice that it is answerable to a plaintiffs claim, to advise the defendant of the nature of that claim, and to afford the defendant an opportunity to defend against it.
AFFIRMED.
JONES and GREENBAUM, JJ., Concur.