Case Name: Robert DOWNEY and Marguerita Downey, Petitioners, v. ZIER & HACKER, P.A., Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1990-02-07
Citations: 556 So. 2d 509
Docket Number: No. 89-2533
Parties: Robert DOWNEY and Marguerita Downey, Petitioners, v. ZIER & HACKER, P.A., Respondent.
Judges: ANSTEAD and GLICKSTEIN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 556
Pages: 509–509

Head Matter:
Robert DOWNEY and Marguerita Downey, Petitioners, v. ZIER & HACKER, P.A., Respondent.
No. 89-2533.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Feb. 7, 1990.
Marguerita Downey and Robert Downey, Lake Worth, pro se.
Brenda Hacker of Zier & Hacker, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for respondent.

Opinion:
LETTS, Judge.
We grant the writ and quash the order of the Broward County Circuit Court dismissing petitioners' appeal from the county court for failure timely to file their initial brief. We remand for further proceedings.
The appeal was filed April 12, 1989. See Rosayn v. Berry, 413 So.2d 460, 461 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982) (document is filed on date a clerk of the court first time stamps the document, regardless of any word appearing over the time stamp). Appellants' motion to supplement the record, filed June 15, 1989, and served no later than June 20, 1989, was served within the seventy day period allowed from filing of the notice of appeal to filing of the initial brief. Fla.R. App.P. 9.110(f). Any motion timely served which is not excepted by rule 9.300(d), tolls the time schedule of any appellate court proceeding until the court disposes of the motion. Fla.R.App.P. 9.300(d). Subsequent motions of both parties served further to toll the time schedule for filing the initial brief. See, e.g., Anderson v. Willis, 402 So.2d 1344 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981). Accordingly, petitioners did not fail timely to file their initial brief; the time to file it had not run.
CERTIORARI GRANTED; ORDER OF DISMISSAL QUASHED; CAUSE REMANDED.
ANSTEAD and GLICKSTEIN, JJ., concur.