Case Name: Newton Lummus, County Tax Assessor, Bob Simpson, County Tax Collector, Ernest Amos, Comptroller of the State of Florida, and E. B. Leatherman, Clerk of the Circuit Court, v. Mrs. Alice Ruth Ransom, a widow, doing business under the firm name of Adirondack-Florida School
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1934-07-31
Citations: 123 Fla. 830
Docket Number: 
Parties: Newton Lummus, County Tax Assessor, Bob Simpson, County Tax Collector, Ernest Amos, Comptroller of the State of Florida, and E. B. Leatherman, Clerk of the Circuit Court, v. Mrs. Alice Ruth Ransom, a widow, doing business under the firm name of Adirondack-Florida School.
Judges: Davis, C. J., and Whitfield, Ellis, Terrell, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 123
Pages: 830–831

Head Matter:
Newton Lummus, County Tax Assessor, Bob Simpson, County Tax Collector, Ernest Amos, Comptroller of the State of Florida, and E. B. Leatherman, Clerk of the Circuit Court, v. Mrs. Alice Ruth Ransom, a widow, doing business under the firm name of Adirondack-Florida School.
168 So. 241.
Opinion Filed July 31, 1934.
Opinion on Rehearing March 28, 1936.
Cary D. Landis, Attorney General, and H. E. Carter and J. V. Keen, Assistants, for Appellants;
Mitchell D. Price and Charles W. Zaring and Jack R. Kirchik, for Appellee.
Robert R. Milam, as Amicus Curiae.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
In this cause Mr. Chief Justice Davis, Mr. Justice Whitfield, and Mr. Justice Buford are of the opinion that the decree of the Circuit Court should be reversed while Mr. Justice Ellis, Mr. Justice Terrell and Mr. Justice Brown are of the opinion that the said decree should be affirmed. When the members of the Supreme Court, sitting six members in a body and after full consultation, it appears that the members of the Court are permanently and equally divided in opinion as to whether the decree should be affirmed or reversed, and there is no pros pect of an immediate change in the personnel of the Court, the decree should be affirmed; therefore it is considered, ordered and adjudged under the authority of State, ex rel. Hampton v. McClung, 47 Fla. 224, 37 So. R. 51, that the decree of the Circuit Court in this cause be and the same is hereby affirmed.
Affirmed.
Davis, C. J., and Whitfield, Ellis, Terrell, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.