State ex rel. Mann v. North Florida Raceway, Inc.

RAWLS, Chief Judge.

This appeal is brought from a final judgment rendered on June 7, 1974. The notice of appeal was filed in the Circuit Court in and for Columbia County on July 11, 1974. This Court sua sponte raised the question of its jurisdiction.

Appellants responded as to the jurisdictional question by stating that they served on appellee’s counsel by certified mail on June 17, 1974, a timely motion for new trial, but inadvertently failed to include the said motion in their directions to the Clerk. Appellants further submit that the timely motion for new trial tolled the time for filing a…