City of Gainesville v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by the court En Banc. Appealed from the Circuit Court for Alachua County. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of ibe court.
1Opinion of the CourtCockrell, J.
This is an appeal from an order setting aside decrees pro oonfesso and final decree consequent thereon upon a petition made more than twenty days after the rendition thereof.
We are not favored with a brief or argument in behalf of the appellees and the petition does not point out wherein the final decree was not proper or consequent upon the bill as confessed, and without aid we have discovered no *460such defects, jurisdictional or fundamental as to enable us to say the bill is wholly wanting in equity.
We have recognized, the power in the Chancellor to vacate final decrees that have become…
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