Opinion
No. 81-1332.
April 20, 1982.
Appeal from the Circuit Court, Dade County, George Orr, J.
Shelding Golding, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.
Fuller Feingold and Lawrence A. Fuller, Miami Beach, for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ and DANIEL S. PEARSON and FERGUSON, JJ.
The trial court has the inherent power to impose the sanction of dismissal for a plaintiff's willful failure to comply with its order, the lawfulness of which was challenged only by plaintiff's adamant refusal to answer certain questions on deposition. See Surrency v. Winn Lovett Grocery Company, 160 Fla. 294, 34 So.2d 564 (1948); Warriner v. Ferraro, 177 So.2d 723 (Fla. 3d DCA 1965).
Affirmed.