Pridgen v. First Union Bank

NORTHCUTT, Judge.

This case arises from a mortgage foreclosure. Irene Pridgen previously filed an untimely appeal from the final judgment of foreclosure, and this court dismissed it for lack of jurisdiction. Roughly twenty-five months after the foreclosure judgment was rendered, Pridgen filed this appeal, directed to an order scheduling the foreclosure sale.

An order that merely schedules a foreclosure sale is not a final appealable order. Rather, it is a purely administrative, interlocutory step in the judicial sales process. See § 45.031(1), Fla. Stat. (2003). Neither is the order appealed…