Carner v. Ratner

Jack earner’s two interlocutory appeals to challenge two orders of the chancellor below have been consolidated.

His first argument on appeal is that the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure have abrogated a pure bill for discovery.

We find no specific language in the Rules of Civil Procedure indicating an intent to abrogate, or abolish, the traditional right of a court to entertain pure bills of discovery. In First Nat. Bank of Miami v. Dade-Broward Co., 125 Fla. 594, 171 So. 510 (1937), the court stated:

“The bill in controversy is a pure bill for discovery.

“Such a bill lies to obtain the…