Court Opinion

ID: 3385637
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 18:39:44.204438+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:52:37.074934
License: Public Domain

The petition for rehearing in this cause suggests that this Court in affirming the judgment of the lower court overlooked the opinion in Fagan v. Robbins, 96 Fla. 91, 117 So. R. 863, because at the time of the entry of the deficiency decree complained of the Circuit Judge was of the opinion that under the provisions of Chapter 7839, Acts of 1919, it became mandatory for him to do so. Irrespective of what might have been in the mind of the lower court, the fact remains that an affidavit of illegality is not applicable to a decree that was not illegal, and while the chancellor may have labored under the belief that he had no discretion in the matter, that fact alone would not render the deficiency decree illegal.
No appeal having been taken from the entry of the deficiency decree such decree is still binding on the plaintiff in error.
Rehearing denied.
WHITFIELD, BROWN AND BUFORD, J. J., concur.