State ex rel. Perez v. Wall

Mabry, J.:

This is a proceeding by mandamus to compel the Hon. Joseph B. Wall, Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, to take cognizance of and determine a certain cause pending in Hillsborough county, in said circuit, wherein Solon B. Turman is complainant, and Rita Perez et al. are defendants, and in which it is made to appear that said judge has refused to act on the ground that he is disqualified.

The ground of disqualification relied on by the judge in his answer is that his wife and the father of the wife of complainant, Solon B. Turman, were brother and sister-of the full blood, and that…