State Ex Rel. Brown v. Duckworth

CHAPMAN, J.:

This mandamus action originated in the Circuit Court of Orange County, Florida, between the relator, Joe E. Brown, constable, and the respondent, E. G. Duckworth, justice of the peace, and the parties hereto are officers of the First Justice District of Orange County. The terms of the alternative writ commanded the respondent, as justice of the peace: (1) to permit or allow the relator, as constable, to act as executive officer of the justice court; (2) to deliver to the constable for service all process issuing out of the justice court in those cases in which the relator was…