Case Name: STATE ex rel. Ernest J. SMITH, Relator, v. The BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF DUVAL COUNTY, Florida, A. E. Stokes, Chairman, Martinez Baker, Ned P. Searcy, Franklin Reinstine, Jacob F. Bryan, III, Harry G. Kincaid, and Marvin C. Harden, Jr., Members of the Board, and Ish Brant, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Duval County, Florida, and Floyd T. Christian, State Superintendent of Education of the State of Florida, Respondents
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1966-07-27
Citations: 189 So. 2d 162
Docket Number: No. 35237
Parties: STATE ex rel. Ernest J. SMITH, Relator, v. The BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF DUVAL COUNTY, Florida, A. E. Stokes, Chairman, Martinez Baker, Ned P. Searcy, Franklin Reinstine, Jacob F. Bryan, III, Harry G. Kincaid, and Marvin C. Harden, Jr., Members of the Board, and Ish Brant, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Duval County, Florida, and Floyd T. Christian, State Superintendent of Education of the State of Florida, Respondents.
Judges: THORNAL, C. J., and DREW, O’CON-NELL and CALDWELL, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 189
Pages: 162–162

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. Ernest J. SMITH, Relator, v. The BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF DUVAL COUNTY, Florida, A. E. Stokes, Chairman, Martinez Baker, Ned P. Searcy, Franklin Reinstine, Jacob F. Bryan, III, Harry G. Kincaid, and Marvin C. Harden, Jr., Members of the Board, and Ish Brant, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Duval County, Florida, and Floyd T. Christian, State Superintendent of Education of the State of Florida, Respondents.
No. 35237.
Supreme Court of Florida.
July 27, 1966.
Horace E. Hill, Daytona Beach, and William F. Daniel, of Cotten, Shivers, Gwynn & Daniel, Tallahassee, for relator.
Elliott Adams and Yardley Drake Buck-man, of McCarthy, Adams & Foote, Jacksonville, for Members of Board of Public Instruction of Duval County, respondents.
Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., and Robert A. Chastain, Asst. Atty. Gen., for Floyd T. Christian, State Superintendent of Education, respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The Alternative Writ of Mandamus heretofore issued is discharged and the petition is dismissed but without prejudice to any rights of the relator to proceed as he may be advised in a proper forum. See Rule 4.5 (a) (2), Florida Appellate Rules 31 F.S.A.
It is so ordered.
THORNAL, C. J., and DREW, O'CON-NELL and CALDWELL, JJ., concur.