State ex rel. West v. Florida Coast Line Canal & Transportation Co.
Supreme Court of Florida
Motion to quash granted unless writ amended. Statement. On an application by the State, on relation of Thomas F. West, Attorney General, for a writ of mandamus, to the Florida Coast Line Canal and Transportation Company. Motion to quash granted on condition.
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Motion to quash granted unless writ amended. Statement. On an application by the State, on relation of Thomas F. West, Attorney General, for a writ of mandamus, to the Florida Coast Line Canal and Transportation Company. Motion to quash granted on condition. The alternative writ issued in this case, January 31, 1917, is as follows: “The State of Florida To Florida Coast Line Canal and Transportation Company, “Greeting : “Whereas, By petition filed in this our Supreme Court of the State of Florida, wherein the State of Florida upon the relation of Thomas F. West as Attorney General, who sues…
1Opinion of the CourtLove, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts).-—-The alternative writ issued by this Court on the relation of the Attorney General alleges that the respondent owns and pretends to -maintain for public use for transporting passengers and property by vessels and other watercraft, a certain canal, composed of artificial and natural waterways, paralleling the East Coast of Florida, and lying wholly within the State of Florida, extending from the St. Johns River on the north to Biscayne Bay on the south.
From its original articles of association, attached to the alternative, writ marked “Exhibit A-i,” upon which…
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