Merritt v. Harless

CARVER, Justice.

Robert L. Merritt applies for mandamus relief to vacate an order of the trial court which denied the filing of and execution on a foreign judgment, and to require the clerk of the trial court to act affirmatively on the foreign judgment. We grant relief as to the trial court but withhold relief as to the clerk because his failure to act rests wholly in obedience to the trial court’s order which we now vacate.

In support of his application, Merritt shows by appropriate documents the following sequence of events in his suit in the Florida courts against Argos Resources, Inc.;…