State Ex Rel. Chavers v. Lee

• Decision Date: 26 November 1935
• Citation: 166 So. 262,122 Fla. 638
• Parties: The STATE of Florida ex rel. CHAVERS and W. D. Fowhand, Copartners Trading Under the Firm Name and Style of Chavers-Fowhand Furniture Company and Home Furniture Company, Relators
• Court: Florida Supreme Court

166 So. 262

122 Fla. 638

The STATE of Florida ex rel. CHAVERS and W. D. Fowhand, Copartners Trading Under the Firm Name and Style of Chavers-Fowhand Furniture Company and Home Furniture Company, Relators v. Florida Supreme Court

November 26, 1935

Judgment affirmed 166 So. 262.

COUNSEL

H. H. Wells and B. K. Roberts, both of Tallahassee, Stanton Walker, of Jacksonville, J. Van Wilhite, of Panama City, and William K. Whitfield, of Tallashassee, for relators.

Cary D. Landis, Atty. Gen., H. E. Carter and J. V. Keen, Asst. Attys. Gen., and Henry C. Tillman, of Tampa, for respondent.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

This case is disposed of on the authority of the cases of State ex rel. Lane Drug Stores, Inc., v. Simpson, Tax Collector, and State ex rel. Thomas B. Adams v. Lee, Comptroller (Fla.) 166 So. 249, this day decided. On the authority of the opinion in the cases just cited, and on the authority of the case of State v. Seaboard Air Line R. Co., 92 Fla. 61, 83, 109 So. 656, the motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus, notwithstanding the answer, is denied, and the alternative writ of mandamus quashed and the proceeding dismissed.

Mandamus quashed and dismissed, at relators' costs.

WHITFIELD, C.J., TERRELL, BROWN, and DAVIS, JJ., and FRANK A. SMITH, Circuit Judge, concur.

BUFORD, J., dissents.

DISSENTING

BUFORD, J. (dissenting).

I dissent from the opinion in this case for the reasons and upon the grounds stated in the opinion prepared by me dissenting in part in the case of State ex rel. Lane Drug Stores, Inc., a corporation, v. Clyde H. Simpson, as Tax Collector of Duval County, Florida (Fla.) 166 So. 227.

^{FN* Second rehearing denied 166 So. 574.}