Macfarlane v. Dorsey
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by Division A. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County. STATEMENT. On the 2Gtk day of November. 1902, E. J. Hills filed his bill in- chancery in the Circuit Court for Hillsborough county against the appellees, for the foreclosure of a mortgage executed by the appellees.upon certain lands in said county, also making as parties defendant the appellant and certain others who claimed-some interest as judgment creditors or otherwise.
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This case was decided by Division A. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County. STATEMENT. On the 2Gtk day of November. 1902, E. J. Hills filed his bill in- chancery in the Circuit Court for Hillsborough county against the appellees, for the foreclosure of a mortgage executed by the appellees.upon certain lands in said county, also making as parties defendant the appellant and certain others who claimed-some interest as judgment creditors or otherwise. Various and sundry pleadings were filed in the’cause by the respective parties, but it is unnecessary to specify or describe them…
1Opinion of the Court
Shackleford, J.,
(after stating the facts.)
Four errors are assigned, but, as they are all based upon the granting of the interlocutory order appealed from, it is not necessary to consider them in detail.
The case of Friedman, Keiler & Co. v. Rehm, 43 Fla. 330, 31 South. Rep. 234, is directly in point. In that case we held that “A final decree rendered in pursuance of a previous decree pro confesso> may be set aside after the lapse of the period of twenty days from its entry, whereby it has become absolute under section 1446 of the Revised Statutes of 1892, but an application to set aside such a *345…
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