Sommers v. Apalachicola Northern Railroad

This cause is now presented upon appeal from the final decree in favor of defendants entered by the judge of the fourteenth judicial circuit. At the threshold we are confronted with a question of the jurisdiction of the court entering the decree from which the appeal was taken, The suit was filed in the circuit court of Franklin County, located within and forming a part of the second judicial circuit. On July 11, 1916, the judge, who was then and is now judge of that court, filed his certificate of disqualification in the cause as follows:

“I, E. C. Love, Judge of the-Circuit Court, Second…