Hector Rivas, Appellant, v. Professional Protection & Investigations Agency, Inc., Appellee. (2023)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Hector Rivas, Appellant, v. Professional Protection & Investigations Agency, Inc., Appellee.

No. 3D22-1132

Decided: March 22, 2023

Before SCALES, LINDSEY, and MILLER, JJ.

Hector Rivas, in proper person. Reiner & Reiner, P.A., and David P. Reiner, II, for appellee.

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.”).

PER CURIAM.

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