Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Mallard
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by the court en banc. Writ of error to the circuit court for Alachua county. STATEMENT. The defendant in error sued the plaintiff in error in an action for personal injuries, in the circuit court of the eighth judicial circuit for Alachua county. The case was tried at the fall term, 1906, and the verdict was rendered on the first day of December, 1906, the last day of the term of court.
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This case was decided by the court en banc. Writ of error to the circuit court for Alachua county. STATEMENT. The defendant in error sued the plaintiff in error in an action for personal injuries, in the circuit court of the eighth judicial circuit for Alachua county. The case was tried at the fall term, 1906, and the verdict was rendered on the first day of December, 1906, the last day of the term of court. Hon. B. H- Palmer, judge of the third judicial circuit, presided over and acted as judge of the eighth circuit for that term of court in Alachua county in the place and stead of Hon. J.…
1Opinion of the CourtParkhxll, J.
(after stating the faots) : It is contended by counsel for defendant in error that, in accordance with the provisions of Section 1180 of the Revised Statutes of 1892, which is Section 1608 of the General Statutes of 1906', motions for new trials are required to- be made in term time, and within four days after the verdict shall have been rendered; and that Chapter 5403, Laws of 1905, providing for an extension of the time for the making and presentation of such motions beyond that time never became a law, because Section 4 thereof provides that it. “shall take effect immediately upon its…
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