PAUL TAVEL, AS EXECUTOR AND TRUSTEE OF THE ESTATE OF CAMILLE GUERIN, DECEASED,
v.
ADELE G. GUERIN
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The Florida Supreme Court addressed a procedural motion by the appellant seeking permission to file an amended answer after the Court's April 4, 1935 decision. The Court clarified that its prior decision on a point of law did not preclude the appellant from seeking leave to amend pleadings in the circuit court, and modified its April 16 order to preserve the appellant's right to present further pleadings without summary preclusion.
The Court held that its prior decision on the point of law did not restrict the appellant's right to seek leave to amend pleadings in the circuit court. The April 16 order was modified to clarify that it was merely a procedural order preserving the appellant's right to present further pleadings for consideration on their merits in the court below.
“The order aforesaid is not to be construed by the court below, or by the parties, as amounting to any decision by this Court of either the propriety or sufficiency of appellant's proposed further pleading in the Circuit Court, but is simply an order of classification entered by this court for the purpose of preserving, unimpaired, the right of appellant to seek an appropriate order in the court below”
Establishes that the Court's procedural order was not a substantive ruling on the merits of the proposed amendment
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This cause was submitted on a motion by appellant praying that permission of the Supreme Court be granted to file a tendered amendment to an answer, or that leave be granted to apply to the Court below for permission to file said amendment, and that if necessary, that a rehearing be granted as to this court’s opinion and judgment of April 4, 1935, for the purpose of modifying the opinion and remanding the couse to the court below, with appropriate directions to save the right of appellant to file further pleadings without being prejudiced by any unintended implication to the contrary that might be argued against the same in the court below.
.On April 16, 1935, this court entered in this cause the following order which appellant has objected to, and filed motion to have.vacated as unauthorized:
“This cause coming on to be heard upon the petition of the appellant above named for leave to file in the Circuit Court certain amendments to the answer filed in said Cir*355cuit Court in this cause or that leave be granted appellant to apply to the Circuit Court for permission to file said amendment and same having been fully considered, it is ordered by the Court that permission be and it is hereby granted to the aforesaid Appellant to apply to the Circuit Court for Orange County, Florida, for an order allowing an amendment to the answer heretofore filed in this cause or to file amended answer.”
The order aforesaid is not to be construed by the court below, or by the parties, as amounting to any decision by this Court of either the propriety or sufficiency of appellant’s proposed further pleading in the Circuit Court, but is simply an order of classification entered by this court for the purpose of preserving, unimpaired, the right of appellant to seek an appropriate order in the court below, without any summary preclusion thereof on account of the decision already rendered in this case, which decision was on a point of law that is in nowise restrictive of appellant’s right to tender, and to have ruled on in the court below on its merits, any further pleading that appellant may want to have presented and considered so far as the same may be done conformably to what has been decided on this appeal.
Order of April 16, 1935, modified to accord to views herein expressed and cause remanded for further appropriate proceedings.
■ Whitfield, C. J., and Terrell, Brown, Buford and Davis, J. J., concur.
Ellis, J., not participating.
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