Gregg Corp. v. Burdine

In this cause Mr. Justice ELLIS, Mr. Justice BROWN and Mr. Justice BUFORD are of the opinion that the order of the circuit court sustaining the demurrer should be affirmed, while Mr. Chief Justice TERRELL and Mr. Justice WHITFIELD and Mr. Justice STRUM are of the opinion that the said order should be reversed. When it appears that the members of the Court are permanently and equally divided in opinion as to whether a judgment should be affirmed or reversed, and there is no prospect of an immediate *Page 1752 change in the personnel of the Court, the judgment should be affirmed. Therefore, it is considered, ordered and adjudged that the judgment of the circuit court in this cause be and the same is hereby affirmed on the authority of State ex rel. Hampton v. McClung, 47 Fla. 224, 37 So. R. 51.

TERRELL, C. J., and WHITFIELD, ELLIS, STRUM, BROWN and BUFORD, J. J., concur.