Brahmbhatt v. Allstate Indemnity Co.

KLEIN, Judge.

In Treat v. State ex rel. Mitton, 121 Fla. 509, 163 So. 883 (1935), our supreme court defined a frivolous appeal as follows:

A frivolous appeal is not merely one that is likely to be unsuccessful. It is one that is so readily recognizable as devoid of merit on the face of the record that there is little, if any, prospect whatsoever that it can ever succeed. See Hopkinson Et Al. v. Kennedy, 225 Mass. 231, 114 N.E. 204 (Mass.1916). It must be one so clearly untenable, or the insufficiency of which is so manifest on a bare inspection of the record and assignments of error, that its…