Jumper Creek Drainage District v. State Ex Rel. Davis

ADAMS, J.:

This appeal is from a judgment for relator notwithstanding respondent’s answer in mandamus. This case has, heretofore, been before us. See State v. Jumper Creek Drainage District, 153 Fla. 451, 14 So. 2nd 900.

When our mandate went down, an answer was filed substantially admitting the allegations of the alternative writ and also set up, by way of an affirmative defense, that several years prior to this suit the drainage district was in the custody of a receiver of the United States District Court and pursuant to express authority of the Court the receiver had received the district’s…