Board of Trustees v. Walton County

I respectfully dissent. Although I understand that there has been extensive and lengthy litigation in this matter, the law requires that this case be resolved in the court which possesses jurisdictional authority over the land in question.

Because the trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to consider an inverse condemnation action against the Board of Trustees, as such an action is in rem and therefore subject to the Local Action Rule, this court should treat this appeal as a petition for writ of prohibition, grant the writ, and thereby divest the Second Judicial Circuit of…