State Ex Rel. Palmer v. Atkinson

The respondent, H. F. Atkinson, is one of the duly elected, qualified and acting Circuit Judges of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, embracing Dade County. There are three other judges in that circuit who have powers and jurisdiction equal and equivalent to that of the respondent as a Circuit Judge of the! Eleventh Judicial Circuit.

The object of the present proceeding in mandamus is to coerce the respondent as one of the Circuit Judges of the Eleventh Circuit, to proceed with hearings concerning, and to rule upon, a motion for appointment of a receiver in the case of Julia M. Palmer…