Case ID: fla_144/html/0599-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Paul, as Agent, v. Florida Cities Bus Company
    198 So. 211
    En Banc
    Opinion Filed October 25, 1940
    /. W. Salisbury, for Plaintiff in Error.
    
      Worley & Gautier and Coleman & Cook, for Defendant in Error.
   Per Curiam.

In this cause Mr. Chief Justice Terrell, Mr. Justice Buford, an'd Mr. Justice Thomas are of the opinion that the judgment in this cause should be affirmed, while Mr. Justice Wfiitfield, Mr. Justice Brown, and Mr. Justice Cpiapman are of the opinion that the said judgment should be reversed. When the members of the Supreme Court, sitting six members in a body and after full consultation it appears that the members of the Court are permanently and equally divided in opinion as to whether the judgment should be affirmed or reversed, and there is no prospect of an immediate change in the personnel of the Court, the decree should be affirmed; therefore it is considered, ordered, and adjudged under the authority of State ex rel. Hampton v. McClung, 47 Fla. 224, 37 So. 51, that the judgment of the Circuit Court in' this cause be and the same is hereby affirmed.

Affirmed.

Terrell, C. J., Whitfield, Brown, Buford, Chapman and Thomas, J. J., concur.