Johns v. County Commissioners
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Orange county. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion”of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mabry, J.:
Cornelius Johns, Jr., by his attorney, J. Hugh Murphy, filed in the Orange County Circuit Court, on the 24th day of May, A. H. 1888, a petition for an alternative writ of mandamus to be issued against the County Commissioners of Orange county, Florida. In the alternative writ it is stated that the relator, Cornelius Johns, Jr., on the 5th day of-March, A. D. 1888, exhibited the scalp of a wild cat to J. L. Bryan, County Judge of Orange County, and that said scalp was presented within ten days after the killing of said animal, and that said relator killed said wild cat in the county…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Canova v. State ex rel. CommissionersSupreme Court of Florida · 1882
- State ex rel. Whiffin v. HelmerNebraska Supreme Court · 1880
- State ex rel. Yelvington v. CooperSupreme Court of Florida · 1884
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- State ex rel. Walker v. StewartSupreme Court of Florida · 1905
- State Ex Rel. Davis v. BuckelsSupreme Court of Florida · 1941
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