Case ID: fla_85/html/0027-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

S. B. Hogan, H. K. Still, W. R. Minor, Being and Constituting the Board of Public Instruction of Hardee County, Florida, Plaintiffs in Error, v. State of Florida ex rel. G. W. Williams, W. M. Lowe, J. M. Hancock, Trustees of Gardner Special Tax School District, Hardee County, and H. C. Ketring, Defendants in Error.
    
    Opinion Filed January 9, 1923.
    1. Mandamus proceedings in the circuit court may be reviewed by the Supreme Court on a writ of error, but not on appeal, and evidence taken in such proceedings in the Circuit Court should be brought to the Supreme Court by means of bill of exceptions.
    2. Where evidence taken in mandamus proceedings, brought to the Supreme Court for review by writ of error, is not contained in a bill of exceptions but there is reproduced in the transcript what purports to be a copy of the testim'ony, the pages containing it may, upon motion, be stricken.
    A motion to strike portions of the transcript.
    Motion granted.
    
      L. Grady Burton, for Plaintiffs in Error;
    
      W. W. Whitehurst, for Defendants in Error.
   Per Curiam.

This is 'a proceeding in mandamus. It is brought to this- court by writ of error. After return to the alternative writ had been made an attorney was appointed by order of the court to take the testimony of witnesses and report same to the court. Pursuant to- this order testimony was taken as if it were a chancery cause. There is no bill of exceptions in the record but the record contains what purports to be a copy of the evidence. The motion to strike the pages of the record containing this evidence should be granted. ■ '

The motion to strike is granted.

Taylor, C. J., and Whitfield, Ellis, Browne and West, J. J., concur.