Polland v. Visual Graphics Corp.

PEARSON, Chief Judge.

These consolidated appeals are brought to review identical orders denying the plaintiff’s motions to vacate orders dismissing their complaints. The circumstances out of which the motions to vacate arose were that after the filing of the complaint in each case the defendant filed a motion to dismiss. These motions to dismiss were properly noticed for hearing before Judge Fritz Gordon, 'one of the judges of the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida. Because of Judge Gordon’s illness, the motion calendar on which the motions had been placed was not heard.…