Opinion
September 23, 1952.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Dade County, Vincent C. Giblin, J.
David D. Phillips, Miami, for appellant.
Robert L. Achor, Miami, for appellee.
Our study of this record has led to the conclusion that the circuit judge ruled correctly when he held that the director's action in revoking appellant's license was justified by the evidence introduced before him.
The appellant insists here as he did in the circuit court that it is incumbent on the administrator to make findings upon which orders of revocation and removal are based. The weight of authority seems to support this view. Such is proper procedure and should be followed.
However, in the present case the testimony was so brief and clear and so patently established the misconduct of the licensee that it would be little more than a gesture to reverse the judgment and direct that the administrator be required to specify what so obviously was the reason for his action, that we take refuge in the thought that no harmful error has been committed.
We have set down these observations, instead of entering a simple order of affirmance, only to serve warning that a failure to make findings in future cases may well constitute such error as to require quashing the orders of the director.
Affirmed.
SEBRING, C.J., and TERRELL and HOBSON, JJ., concur.