State of Florida Ex Rel. v. Atkinson Lasseter

This case is one of original jurisdiction in which this Court issued a rule nisi in prohibition to Honorable H. F. Atkinson, Judge of the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Lora L. Lasseter, joined by her husband, Platt A. Lasseter, in a case then pending in the Circuit Court of Dade County wherein it was alleged that the Circuit Judge, on petition of other defendants, the Lasseters, was assuming jurisdiction to appoint a Receiver to take charge of and wind up the affairs of a building and loan corporation known as Dade County Security Company.

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