Case Name: State, ex rel. C. Chavers and W. D. Fowhand, co-partners trading under the firm name and style of Chavers-Fowhand Furniture Company, v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1935-11-26
Citations: 122 Fla. 638
Docket Number: 
Parties: State, ex rel. C. Chavers and W. D. Fowhand, co-partners trading under the firm name and style of Chavers-Fowhand Furniture Company, v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller.
Judges: Whitfield, C. J., and Terrell, Brown and Davis, J. J., and Frank A. Smith, Circuit Judge, concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 122
Pages: 638–638

Head Matter:
State, ex rel. C. Chavers and W. D. Fowhand, co-partners trading under the firm name and style of Chavers-Fowhand Furniture Company, v. J. M. Lee, as Comptroller.
166 So. 262.
Opinion Filed November 26, 1935.
Affirmed on Rehearing February 25, 1936.
H. H. Wells, B. K. Roberts, Stanton Walker, J. Van Wilhite and William K. Whitfield (of Tallahassee), for Relators ;
Cary D. Landis, Attorney General, H. E. Carter and J. V. Keen, Assistants, and Henry C. Tillman, for Respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This case is' disposed of on the authority of the cases of State, ex rel. Lane Drug Stores, Inc., v. Simpson, Tax Collector, 122 Fla. 582, 166 So. 227, and State, ex rel. Thomas B. Adams, v. Lee, Comptroller, 122 Fla. 639, 166 So. 249. On the authority of the opinions in the cases just cited and on the authority of the case of State v. Seaboard Air Line Ry. Co., 92 Fla. 83, 109 Sou. Rep. 656, the motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus,, notwithstanding the answer, is denied and the alternative writ of mandamus quashed and the proceeding dismissed.
Mandamus quashed and dismissed at relators' costs.
Whitfield, C. J., and Terrell, Brown and Davis, J. J., and Frank A. Smith, Circuit Judge, concur.
Buford, J., dissents.