DocketNumber: 22-1132
Filed Date: 3/22/2023
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 3/22/2023
Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida Opinion filed March 22, 2023. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D22-1132 Lower Tribunal No. 12-30236 ________________ Hector Rivas, Appellant, vs. Professional Protection & Investigations Agency, Inc., Appellee. An appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Jose M. Rodriguez, Judge. Hector Rivas, in proper person. Reiner & Reiner, P.A., and David P. Reiner, II, for appellee. Before SCALES, LINDSEY, and MILLER, JJ. PER CURIAM. Dismissed. See Fla. R. App. P. 9.020(g)(1) (defining “appellant” as “[a] party who seeks to invoke the appeal jurisdiction of a court”); Credit Indus. Co. v. Remark Chem. Co.,67 So. 2d 540
, 541 (Fla. 1953) (quoting 16 Am. Jur., Declaratory Judgments) (“In accordance with the fundamental rule that to be entitled to appeal a person must be aggrieved by the judgment, an appeal from a . . . judgment will be dismissed where there is nothing in it prejudicial to the claimed rights of the appellant.”); Portfolio Invs. Corp. v. Deutsche Bank Nat. Tr. Co.,81 So. 3d 534
, 536 (Fla. 3d DCA 2012) (quoting Barnett v. Barnett,705 So. 2d 63
, 64 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997)) (“[A] non-party in the lower tribunal is a ‘stranger to the record’ and, therefore, lacks standing to appeal an order entered by the lower tribunal.”). 2