Baute v. Crenshaw
After voluntarily dismissing a trust-accounting/breach-of-trust suit against a trustee, the plaintiff filed a new suit against the same person individually for tortious interference with an expected inheritance; the trial court stayed the new suit under Rule 1.420(d) until costs from the prior suit were paid. The Sixth DCA granted certiorari and quashed the stay, holding the two suits lacked identity of causes of action and that no order liquidating a specific amount of costs had been entered, so a Rule 1.420(d) stay was unavailable.
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