Cone v. State Ex Rel. Davis

On writ of error we review judgment awarding peremptory writ of mandamus.

The record shows that on January 2, 1940, a petition for alternative writ of mandamus was presented to the lower court, and on the same date an alternative writ was issued in which Harry C. Davis was the relator and Fred P. Cone, J. M. Lee and W. V. Knott, as and constituting the Board of Administration, were respondents. The writ alleged the ownership of $3120.00 of interest coupons clipped from certain described original bonds of Hillsborough County Special Road and Bridge District No. 5. It also alleged the possession…