Florida Land Rock Phosphate Co. v. Anderson
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by Division A. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Levy County. STATEMENT. The transcript in this case consists of 376 typewritten pages. We have tried to set forth in the following statement a synopsis of the pleadings, evidence, orders, decrees and proceedings generally which will be sufficiently full for an intelligent understanding of the opinion. This has been a task of some difficulty, and the ' statement -is necessarily quite condensed.
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This case was decided by Division A. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Levy County. STATEMENT. The transcript in this case consists of 376 typewritten pages. We have tried to set forth in the following statement a synopsis of the pleadings, evidence, orders, decrees and proceedings generally which will be sufficiently full for an intelligent understanding of the opinion. This has been a task of some difficulty, and the ' statement -is necessarily quite condensed. On the 23rd day of December, 1896, appellee filed his original bill in chancery in the Circuit Court for Levy county against…
1Opinion of the Court
Shackleford, C. J.,
(after stating the facts.) The pleadings in this case have been inartificially drafted and the entire proceedings have been loosely conducted. The record is in such a confused state that we have seriously considered the .advisability of following the precedent established by Judge RANDALL in Mattair v. Payne, 15 Fla. 682, text 686, wherein he said: “There seems to be no better way, to put these parties in their proper position to assert their legal and equitable remedies and disentangle them from the labyrinth of confusion in which they appear to be involved, than to…
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