Payret v. Adams

We deny the petition for writ of prohibition upon the authority of Crusoe v. Rowls, 472 So.2d 1163 (Fla.1985). In particular, we believe the Supreme Court’s reaffirmance of its prior decision in State ex rel. Treadwell v. Hall, 274 So.2d 537 (Fla.1973) forecloses us from acting herein.

Nevertheless, we are concerned with the extent to which a county judge may assume the duties of a circuit judge and, particularly, with the issue presented here where the county judge in question conceded that for all intents and purposes, he was the circuit judge for the western section of Palm Beach County,…