Florida Elections Commission v. Smith

KEHOE, Judge.

Appellants, defendants below, bring this interlocutory appeal from two orders of the trial court dated May 24 and June 6, 1977, entered after it had previously entered an order dated May 4, 1977 transferring venue of the cause to another judicial circuit. We have concluded that the orders appealed were improperly entered; therefore, they are vacated.

Once a trial court transfers venue of an action to another court, the transferring court may not then rule upon the merits of the cause, although it may continue to control certain continuing and procedural matters of the action until…