Segel v. Staiber

The case was a civil action for damages for personal injuries, commenced in the Civil Court of Record for Hillsborough County, by the petitioners as plaintiffs, against the respondent, as defendant. The defendant appeared and filed his plea of "not guilty." Thereafter the cause was placed upon the trial docket. There had existed in said Civil Court a long established and continuous practice and custom of notifying all attorneys practicing before that Court, not only of the sounding of the docket, but it was also the custom of that court to cause a printed list of all cases set by the Court at…