Case Name: Hannah S. Whilldin, Appellant, v. Francis E. Greene, Carrie B. Briggs and Hubert F. Krantz, Appellees
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1925-01-24
Citations: 89 Fla. 30
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hannah S. Whilldin, Appellant, v. Francis E. Greene, Carrie B. Briggs and Hubert F. Krantz, Appellees.
Judges: Whitfield, P. J., and West and Terrell, J. J., concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 89
Pages: 30–32

Head Matter:
Hannah S. Whilldin, Appellant, v. Francis E. Greene, Carrie B. Briggs and Hubert F. Krantz, Appellees.
Division B.
Opinion Filed January 24, 1925.
Petition for Rehearing Denied February 28, 1925.
Where a final decree is rendered for complainant and a writ of assistance issued in the cause has been executed, it is error for the chancellor on a “petition for restitution,” filed by the defendant, to allow him to answer the bill and on the showing made to decree for the defendant and therein to approve and confirm a decree setting aside the final decree for complainant rendered upon a bill in the nature of a bill of review.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Palm Beach County; E. C. Davis, Judge.
Decree reversed. -
C. D. Abbott, for Appellant ;
Blackwell, Donnell & McCracken, for Appellees.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
It appears that on Aprd 22, 1919, Hannah S. Whilldin filed a bill of complaint, seeking an accounting and the establishment of a trust and restoration of property to complainant; Carrie B. Briggs was dismissed as a defendant. A decree pro confesso was entered against Francis E. Green and Hubert F. Erantz, both having appeared by counsel and filed demurrers to the bill of complaint, which demurrers were overruled.
On November 29, 1920, a final decree was rendered in favor of the complainant and a writ of assistance was issued and executed.
On November 7, 1921, the defendant Erantz filed a "petition for restitution." On the same day a writ of dispossession was issued and executed ousting Hannah S. Whilldin and putting Erantz in possession. Erantz filed an answer in the cause and on bill and answer the chancellor decreed for the defendant Erantz and also decreed that a final decree in a cause based on an original bill in the nature of a bill of review setting aside the final decree in this cause be approved and confirmed. The complainant appealed.
The decree appealed from is reversed, and the cause remanded, with direction to enforce the original decree in favor of the complainant, Hannah S. Wliilldin.
It is so ordered.
Whitfield, P. J., and West and Terrell, J. J., concur.
Taylor, C. J., and Ellis and Browne, J. J., concur in the opinion.