State, Ex Rel. Hoffman v. Powell

(dissenting).—An alternative writ of mandamus was' granted upon the petition of Lillian H. Hoffman against Leigh R. Powell, Jr., and Henry W. Anderson, as Receivers of the Seaboard Airline Railway Company, to require them to deliver to the relator, upon the presentation of a bill of lading therefor and payment of the proper charges, three cases of spirituous and intoxicating liquors consigned to the relator and now held by the agents of the respondents in the depot warehouse in Tallahassee,.Florida, or to show cause why they fail to do so.

The petition alleged that the relator, in November,…