Case Title: Jones v. OFFICE OF SHERIFF

Citation: 541 So. 2d 1149

Docket Number: 73239

State: florida

Court: Florida Supreme Court

Date: 1989-03-30T00:00:00Z

Document:
541 So. 2d 1149 (1989)
H.W. JONES, Petitioner,
v.
OFFICE OF the SHERIFF, Respondent.
No. 73239.

Supreme Court of Florida.
March 30, 1989.
Elizabeth L. White, Wm. J. Sheppard and Cyra O'Daniel of Sheppard and White, P.A., Jacksonville, for petitioner.
James L. Harrison, Gen. Counsel and Bruce Page, Asst. Counsel, Jacksonville, for respondent.
BARKETT, Justice.
We have for review Jones v. Office of the Sheriff, 532 So. 2d 742, 743 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988), in which the district court certified the following question to be of great public importance:
We have discretionary jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. We answer the certified question in the negative, quash the decision of the district court on the authority of Johnson v. Citizens State Bank, 537 So. 2d 96 (Fla. 1989), and remand for proceedings consistent herewith.
It is so ordered.
EHRLICH, C.J., and OVERTON, McDONALD, SHAW, GRIMES and KOGAN, JJ., concur.