Nash v. Richard
Cases that cite this one
4 later published cases cite this decision.
- Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners v. an Accountable Miami-Dade (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2016)
- Betts v. City of Edgewater (United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida 1986)
- Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners v. an Accountable Miami-Dade (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2016)
- Nash v. Richard (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1965)
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Opinion of the Court
The order quashing the alternative writ of mandamus and dismissing appellants’ petition
“7. That the majority of the individual Respondents, including Melvin J. Richard as Mayor of the City of Miami Beach, have openly declared that they will not submit the ‘Fair Play Amendments’ to the qualified electors of Miami Beach, Florida.”
An inclination or an intention not to do an official act may not be reached by mandamus. The governing body of a municipal corporation acts validly only in duly authorized and constituted meetings. Turk v. Richard, Fla.1950, 47 So.2d 543; Beck v. Littlefield, Fla.1953, 68 So.2d 889.
Affirmed.
.The order appealed was defective in that it did not specifically dismiss the Petition for Writ of Mandamus. See State ex rel. Mott v. Scofield, Fla.App.1960, 120 So.2d 825. Although the question has not been raised, the circuit judge set forth throe grounds for his order, all of which go properly to a dismissal of the suggestion, we therefore, shall so construe the order.
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