Title: ALLSTATE MORTGAGE CORPORATION OF FLA. v. Strasser
Citation: 286 So. 2d 201
Docket Number: 44012
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: November 28, 1973

286 So. 2d 201 (1973)
ALLSTATE MORTGAGE CORPORATION OF FLORIDA, Petitioner,
v.
Shirley STRASSER et al., Respondents.
No. 44012.

Supreme Court of Florida.
November 28, 1973.
Elliot L. Miller, Miami, for petitioner.
Walter S. Mackauf, Miami Beach, for respondents.
McCAIN, Justice.
This cause is before us to review the decision of the Third District Court of Appeal reported at 277 So. 2d 843, which was certified to us as passing upon a question of great public interest, recited by that Court to be:
We have jurisdiction pursuant to Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Constitution of Florida, F.S.A., and Rule 4.6, F.A.R., 32 F.S.A.
The record reveals that the respondent, Shirley Strasser, was the owner of certain real property located in Dade County, Florida. On March 16, 1972, however, Inca International Corporation filed a *202 complaint against the respondent for the foreclosure of a mechanic's lien against the property.
On April 12, 1972, a default judgment was entered against the respondent and on April 27, 1972, the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit entered its final judgment, ordering, among other things, that the property in question be publicly sold. Pursuant to Chapter 45, Florida Statutes, notice of the sale was given on May 4, 1972, and on May 15, 1972, the property was sold to the petitioner, Allstate Mortgage Corporation. The following day the Clerk of the Circuit Court issued a certificate of sale.
On May 23, 1972, however, the Court ordered that the Clerk accept the respondent's payment in redemption. The following day the respondent paid to the Clerk the amount which the petitioner had bid and paid for the property plus costs and a certificate of redemption was issued.
From the order of redemption issued by the Circuit Court, the petitioner appealed to the Third District Court of Appeal. The District Court affirmed, basing its decision upon its interpretation of Fla. Stat. § 45.031(1), F.S.A., as amended by Chapter 71-5, Laws of Florida 1971. Fla. Stat. § 45.031(1), F.S.A., (1969) provided, in pertinent part:
The 1971 amendment added the following pertinent language:
In reaching its decision, the District Court points out that prior to the amendment, the statute did not expressly mention redemption but that the courts had held that there was an inherent right of redemption evolving from the common law which could be exercised at any time prior to entry of an order confirming a sale.
Turning to the amendment, the District Court found:
After oral argument and upon consideration of the petition, the briefs and the record, we conclude that the District Court has correctly interpreted Fla. Stat. § 45.031(1), F.S.A. (1971). Accordingly, the decision of the District Court is affirmed and the question certified to us by the District Court is answered negatively.
It is so ordered.
Affirmed.
CARLTON, C.J., and ADKINS, BOYD and DEKLE, JJ., concur.
[1]  277 So. 2d  at 845.