Title: Wolf v. Cleveland Electric Co.
Citation: 58 So. 2d 153
Docket Number: N/A
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: April 1, 1952

58 So. 2d 153 (1952)
WOLF
v.
CLEVELAND ELECTRIC CO., Inc.

Supreme Court of Florida, Special Division B.
April 1, 1952.
*154 Murrell &amp; Murrell, Jacksonville, for appellant.
Wm. Joe Sears and Eli Fink, Jacksonville, for appellee.
MATHEWS, Justice.
The appellee filed a motion to dismiss an appeal in this case upon the following grounds:
The important question is whether or not the order of the Circuit Court on November 24, 1950, was a final judgment.
The order of the Court was as follows:
The above order was a final judgment from which an appeal could have been taken. "`Final judgment' means the finish of the judicial labor, pronouncement of the ultimate conclusion of the court upon the case * * *." Foley v. State, Fla., 50 So. 2d 179, 186.
The time fixed by the statute within which an appeal must be taken from a final judgment is jurisdictional and where an appeal is not taken within the time required, no jurisdiction is conferred on the *155 appellate court. In re Warner's Estate, 159 Fla. 675, 32 So. 2d 461.
In this case a petition for rehearing was filed and other proceedings had. In the course of these other proceedings after the above final judgment was entered the plaintiff made a motion ore tenus for leave to file a Third Amended Declaration, which was denied by the Court on December 11, 1951, in the following words:
On the 3rd day of January, 1952, the plaintiff in the court below, appellant here, attempted to take an appeal from the last mentioned order.
The final judgment entered on the 24th day of November, 1950, was the final judgment, and the other proceedings, such as, petition for rehearing and motion to file a third amended declaration, and the orders thereon, did not stop the running of the statutory period within which the appeal was required to be taken from the final judgment of November 24, 1950. Lauderdale By The Sea Development Co. v. Lauderdale Surf &amp; Yacht Estates, Inc., 160 Fla. 912, 37 So. 2d 364, 10 A.L.R.2d 1072.
Even if the order dated December 11, 1951, above quoted could be considered as the final judgment in this case, it would be necessary that we affirm the same under the authority of National Surety Corp. v. Sholtz, 123 Fla. 110, 166 So. 213; Treat v. State ex rel. Mitton, 121 Fla. 509, 163 So. 883; Gill v. Smith, 119 Fla. 293, 161 So. 282.
The appeal is quashed.
SEBRING, C.J., and CHAPMAN and HOBSON, JJ., concur.