Yates v. Bryan

This cause is on appeal from several orders of the trial court, the result of which prevents Appellant from blocking a public easement and holds him in contempt for failing to pay half the cost of a court-ordered survey. We reverse the trial court on the two issues relating to the order of contempt; we affirm the remaining issues without further discussion.

The civil contempt order at issue ordered Appellant imprisoned in the Walton County jail for willfully failing to pay half the fee of a previously ordered land survey. This was reversible error. Article I, section 11 of the Florida…