MUMMA v. MUMMA

Nos. 98-2419, 98-2452.

734 So.2d 571 (1999)

Barbara McK. MUMMA and Lisa Mumma Morgan, as Co-Executrixes of the Estate of Robert M. Mumma, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Robert MUMMA, II, and Hi-Spec, Inc., a Florida corporation, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied July 9, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L.S. Bowdish of Crary, Buchanan, Bowdish, Bovie, Roby, Beres, Negron & Thomas, Chartered, and Jordan Fields of Fields & Wilkinson, P.A., Stuart, for appellants/cross-appellees.

Jeremy A. Koss of Phillips, Eisinger, Koss & Rosenfeldt, P.A., Hollywood, for appellees/cross-appellants.


PER CURIAM.

In these consolidated appeals, both the appellants and the appellees allege error in the trial court's 1998 order which "closed" an action without further judicial proceedings, following a 1993 partial final judgment dissolving a corporation and ordering a final accounting. We reverse.

The trial court lacked authority to "close" this case. While trial courts at one time possessed the inherent power to dismiss a cause that was not being prosecuted...

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