Case Name: State, ex rel. M. G. Rowe, v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1938-09-15
Citations: 133 Fla. 825
Docket Number: 
Parties: State, ex rel. M. G. Rowe, v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller.
Judges: Ellis, C. J., and Whitfield, Terrell, Brown, Buford and Chapman, J. J., concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 133
Pages: 825–826

Head Matter:
State, ex rel. M. G. Rowe, v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller.
183 So. 475.
Opinion Filed September 15, 1938.
Scarlett & Futch and George Couper Gibbs, for Relator;
Cary D. Landis, Attorney General, and H. E. Carter and W. P. Allen, Assistant Attorneys General, for Respondent.
Kelly & Casler, Paul C. Albritton, Vocelle & Mitchell, Smith & Cannon, Fee & Liddon, Maguire & Voorhis and Thomas H. Anderson as Amici Curiae.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
—The above styled cause is at issue before the Court upon motion of Counsel for Respondent to quash the Alternative AYrit of Mandamus issued in the cause. Mr. Chief Justice Ellis, Mr. Justice Brown and Mr. Justice Buford are of the opinion that the said motion to quash the alternative writ should be denied; while Mr. Justice AYhitfield, Mr. Justice Terrell and Mr. Justice Chapman are of the opinion that said motion to quash the alternative writ should be granted. The Court being thus evenly divided, it is ordered and adjudged by the Court that the motion to quash the alternative writ of mandamus in this cause, be and it is hereby denied.
Ellis, C. J., and Whitfield, Terrell, Brown, Buford and Chapman, J. J., concur.