State Ex Rel. Badgett v. Lee

THOMAS, J.:

This and twenty-three companion cases have been submitted upon motion to quash the alternative writs issued by authority of Division “A”. Although the controversies are now in a preliminary stage, it seems advisable to record our views in this one, to the end that final disposition of all may be expedited and simplified.

By the writ the Comptroller was commanded to refund to relators a certain amount alleged to be payable under Chapter 22008, Laws of Florida, Acts of 1943. (Section 215.26, Florida Statutes, 1941, Sup., and F.S.A.)

The attack, by way of the motion we now entertain,…