Florida Fish Distributors, Inc. v. Norwegian Caribbean Lines, Inc.

BOYER, Chief Judge.

In appealing the order of the Circuit Court directing a verdict in favor of appel-lee, appellant raises the following question: Must a response to a request for admission made pursuant to Rule 1.370, RCP, be signed and sworn to by the responding party, or is the unsworn signature of the responding party’s attorney sufficient ?

The record indicates that prior to trial, appellant, plaintiff below, served two requests for admission.1 In response to those requests, appellee filed two separate responses which, except for one minor admission, denied all the requests. The responses…