State ex rel. Edwards v. County Commissioners of Sumter County
Supreme Court of Florida
This is a case of original jurisdiction. For opinion on motion to quash respondents’ first return to the alternative writ, see page 1, supra. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Raney
After the opinion on relator’s motion to quash was filed, the respondents, pursuant to leave from the court, filed an amended return denying that the petition was signed by a majority of the registered voters of the election district and alleging that thirty-five persons, whose names are given, did not in fact sign it; and charging that the signing of their names or making of their marks, a3 they appear on the petition, was not the act and deed of such persons; and alleging that without such names there are not a majority of the registered voters on the petition. Upon this return, the relator…
2Cited by5 opinions
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- Boomershine v. UlineIndiana Supreme Court · 1902
- State ex rel. Davis v. NewmanSupreme Court of Florida · 1888
- State ex rel. Mitchell v. BloxhamSupreme Court of Florida · 1890
- Hull v. GreeleySupreme Court of Florida · 1893