Case Name: CARL B. SMITH & SONS, INC., Appellant, v. Elisabeth Henderson TINKLER, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1975-08-08
Citations: 318 So. 2d 184
Docket Number: No. 74-333
Parties: CARL B. SMITH & SONS, INC., Appellant, v. Elisabeth Henderson TINKLER, Appellee.
Judges: McNULTY, C. J., and BOARDMAN, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 318
Pages: 184–185

Head Matter:
CARL B. SMITH & SONS, INC., Appellant, v. Elisabeth Henderson TINKLER, Appellee.
No. 74-333.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Aug. 8, 1975.
Rehearing Denied Sept. 4, 1975.
M. W. Graybill and Ted R. Manry, III, of Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, Tampa, for appellant.
Gerald W. Nelson and Charles E. Berg-mann of Yado, Keel, Nelson & Casper, Tampa, for appellee.

Opinion:
HOBSON, Judge.
Appellant appeals a final judgment entered against it and in favor of appellee.
The first point on appeal involves the question of relation back of the claim contained in the final amended complaint to the "cause of action" stated in the original complaint. The original complaint was filed within the time allowed under the Statute of Limitations. Several amended complaints were subsequently filed which also were within the Statute of Limitations. The final amended complaint which was the claim upon which the case went to trial was filed after the Statute of Limitations had run.
We concur with the trial court that under Keel v. Brown, Fla.App.2d 1964, 162 So.2d 321; Brown v. Wood, Fla.App.2d 1967, 202 So.2d 125; and Handley v. Anclote Manor Foundation, Fla.App.2d 1971, 253 So.2d 501, the final amended complaint in the instant cause relates back to the original complaint and the trial court was eminently correct in so ruling.
The remaining two points on appeal attack the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the jury's verdict. We have carefully reviewed the record on appeal and have determined, as the trial judge did, that there is competent, substantial evidence to support the jury's verdict.
Affirmed.
McNULTY, C. J., and BOARDMAN, J., concur.