State Ex Rel. First American Bank & Trust Co. v. Chillingworth

This case comes to this Court on an original petition for alternative writ of mandamus to order the respondent, Hon. C. E. Chillingworth, Judge of the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, to take jurisdiction of an action in which First American Bank & Trust Company of West Palm Beach, as receiver for Farm ers Bank & Trust Company, is a party. The action is one for the collection of a promissory note which is a part of the assets of Farmers Bank & Trust Company.

Petitioner, as receiver of Farmers Bank & Trust Company, instituted an action in the Circuit Court of the…