Legal Opinion

Curry v. Lehman

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided January 15, 1909PublishedCited by 1 opinion

This case was decided by Division A. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Manatee county. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, C. J.

This appeal is from a decree dismissing a bill of complaint brought to cancel the record *386of a judgment as a cloud upon the title to real estate. A judgment rendered in 1897 in the Circuit Court for Duval county, Florida, was in 1902, recorded in a book called “Judgment Docket” in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Manatee county. The clerk testified that prior to 1905 there was no separate book in the office for the record of foreign judgments and that prior to 1905 foreign judgments were recorded in. the book called .'“Judgment Docket;” that at the heading of page 184 of the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Curry v. LehmanSupreme Court of Florida · 1908
  2. Ivey v. DawleySupreme Court of Florida · 1905

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Forman v. First National BankSupreme Court of Florida · 1918

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