MERRILL-STEVENS DRY DOCK CO. v. DOZIER

No. 74-1681.

310 So.2d 434 (1975)

MERRILL-STEVENS DRY DOCK CO., Appellant, v. Thomas DOZIER and Jacqueline Dozier D/B/a the Yacht Free Love, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

April 8, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward C. Vining, Jr., and R.M. MacArthur and Richard A. Burt, Miami, for appellant.

G. David Parrish and Robert H. Trachman, Coral Gables, for appellees.

Before PEARSON and NATHAN, JJ., and CHARLES CARROLL (Ret.), Associate Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Upon consideration of this interlocutory appeal by the defendant, Merrill-Stevens Dry Dock Co., from a final judgment of default entered after the circuit court denied the defendant's motion to set aside a default for failure to timely file a pleading or paper in response to the plaintiff-appellees' complaint, we find there to be reversible error.

The policy of the courts of Florida in setting aside defaults in order to permit a trial on the merits...

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