Case Name: State, ex rel. Lane Drug Stores, Inc., v. Clyde H. Simpson, as Tax Collector of Duval County. Original Mandamus; State, ex rel. Lane Drug Stores, Inc., v. R. H. Carswell, as Tax Collector of Duval County. Original Mandamus; State, ex rel. C. Chavers, et al., v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller. Original Mandamus; C. Chavers v. John P. Harrell, Sheriff of Washington County. Original Habeas Corpus; State, ex rel. Thomas B. Adams, an officer of the Court, et al., v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller. Original Quo Warranto; State, ex rel. X-Cel Stores, Inc., v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller. Original Mandamus
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1936-02-25
Citations: 122 Fla. 670
Docket Number: 
Parties: State, ex rel. Lane Drug Stores, Inc., v. Clyde H. Simpson, as Tax Collector of Duval County. Original Mandamus. State, ex rel. Lane Drug Stores, Inc., v. R. H. Carswell, as Tax Collector of Duval County. Original Mandamus. State, ex rel. C. Chavers, et al., v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller. Original Mandamus. C. Chavers v. John P. Harrell, Sheriff of Washington County. Original Habeas Corpus. State, ex rel. Thomas B. Adams, an officer of the Court, et al., v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller. Original Quo Warranto. State, ex rel. X-Cel Stores, Inc., v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller. Original Mandamus.
Judges: Whitfield, C. J., and Terrell, Brown and Davis, J. J., concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 122
Pages: 670–685

Head Matter:
State, ex rel. Lane Drug Stores, Inc., v. Clyde H. Simpson, as Tax Collector of Duval County. Original Mandamus. State, ex rel. Lane Drug Stores, Inc., v. R. H. Carswell, as Tax Collector of Duval County. Original Mandamus. State, ex rel. C. Chavers, et al., v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller. Original Mandamus. C. Chavers v. John P. Harrell, Sheriff of Washington County. Original Habeas Corpus. State, ex rel. Thomas B. Adams, an officer of the Court, et al., v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller. Original Quo Warranto. State, ex rel. X-Cel Stores, Inc., v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller. Original Mandamus.
166 So. 262.
En Banc.
Order Entered February 25, 1936.
Thomas B. Adams, Henry P. Adair, John M. McNatt, Knight, Adair, Cooper & Osborne, H. H. Wells, B. K. Roberts, Stanton Walker, J. Van Wilhite,, and .William K. Whitfield (of Tallahassee), for Relators;
Claibourne M. Phipps and Reginald L. Williams for Relator, X-Cel Stores, Inc.;
Cary D. Landis, Attorney General, H. E. Carter and /. V. Keen, Assistants, and Henry C. Tillman, for Respondents.

Opinion:
On Rehearing Granted.
Per Curiam.
A rehearing having been granted in these several causes by order entered herein under date of January 24, 1936, and each of the above styled causes and proceedings' having been fully and at length reargued before the Supreme Court sitting en banc, all of the Justices thereof being present and participating, and the several causes having now been fully reconsidered, and the Court now being advised of its opinion and judgment in the premises, it is thereupon considered, ordered and adjudged by this Court that the several opinions heretofore agreed to and adopted by a majority of this' Court in the cases of State, ex rel. Lane Drug Stores, v. Simpson (decided November 26, 1935); State, ex rel. Thomas B. Adams, v. Lee (decided November 27, 1935), and State, ex rel. X-Cel Stores, Inc., v. Lee (decided January 14, 1936), be and the same are hereby readopted and agreed to by the majority of the Justices now participating in the decision of these several cases on rehearing, and further, that all appropriate orders and judgments in conformity to such opinions that have been heretofore entered, be and the same are hereby reinstated and made'the several judgments and orders of this Court in the premises with like force and effect as originally entered.
Opinions heretofore filed readopted on rehearing, and appropriate judgments entered in conformity therewith.
Whitfield, C. J., and Terrell, Brown and Davis, J. J., concur.
Ellis, P. J., and Buford, J., dissent.