Court Opinion

ID: 7795397
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-30 21:48:39.721569+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:28:26.543217
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM.
Appellant moved to vacate a final judgment on the ground that he was not properly served with process. At the hearing on the motion to set aside the judgment, based on a default, the process server testified that he had served appellant with the papers, despite appellant’s attempts to avoid service of process. Appellant admitted he lived at the address where the process server had been attempting to serve him, but testified that he had been out of town when the process server claimed to have served him with the papers at the gate to his driveway. The trial court obviously believed the process server, who identified appellant as the person he served.
Where return of service appears valid on its face, there is a presumption of correctness, Slomowitz v. Walker, 429 So.2d 797 (Fla. 4th DCA 1988), and in this case appellant did not overcome that presumption. We have considered the other issue raised by appellant and find it to be without merit. Affirmed.
POLEN, KLEIN and STEVENSON, JJ., concur.