Case ID: so2d_110/html/0086-01.html
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Author: {"author": "DREW, E. HARRIS, Associate Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ida Lee TRAWICK, Appellant, v. BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION FOR COUNTY OF ORANGE, State of Florida, a body corporate and politic under the laws of the State of Florida; and Brantley Burcham, Herment E. Smith, W. J. Taylor, R. N. Heintzelman and Mrs. Leslie Turner, Individually as constituting the members of The Board of Public Instruction for the County of Orange, Appellees.
    No. 865.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.
    March 20, 1959.
    Olsen & Byrd, and Jackson A. Cargill, Orlando, for appellant.
    J. R. Wells and Allen K. McCormick, Orlando, for appellees.
   DREW, E. HARRIS, Associate Judge,

This appeal is from an order of the trial court holding that Ida Lee Trawick had failed in her petition for writ of mandamus to show a clear legal right to have an alternative writ issued. The trial court dissolved and dismissed the rule to show cause and provided “the parties shall go hence without day.”

No useful purpose would be served by a lengthy opinion. We are of the view that the petition seeking an order requiring the Board of Public Instruction of Orange County to award petitioner a contract as a “contract teacher” is legally sufficient, makes out a prima facie case, and justifies the issuance of the alternative writ and a disposition of the cause on the merits.

The constitutionality of the legislative acts involved in this case is not raised.

Reversed with directions to vacate the questioned order and for further proceedings.

ALLEN, Acting Chief Judge, and SHANNON, J., concur. 
      
      . The procedure here is somewhat unusual but obviously authorized by Rule 2.19, Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, 31 F.S.A. Upon filing the petition for mandamus a rule to show cause was issued pursuant to the rule. On the return day the trial court heard arguments on the legal sufficiency of the petition and entered the order complained of. No question has been raised concerning the propriety of the procedure, both parties agreeing that the sole issue is the legal sufficiency of the petition.
     
      
      . Chapter 24745, Laws of Florida, Acts of 1947.