State of ex rel. Dade County v. Moran

HENDRY, Chief Judge.

The state, for the use and benefit of Dade County, seeks reversal of an order of the circuit court granting the surety’s motion to vacate final judgment and set aside bond estreature.

Summit Fidelity & Surety Company is the surety on a bond assuring the appearance of Mathew K. Moran for trial on a traffic charge in the Metropolitan Court of Dade County. Moran failed to appear and the bond was estreated by the Metropolitan Court on April 6, 1965. A certificate of bond estreature was filed on November 3, 1965, and judgment of forfeiture was entered by the circuit court on…