Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1973

Rhoades v. Sweet

Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided April 17, 1973 · Carroll, Haverfield, Pearson

276 So. 2d 221; 1973 Fla. App. LEXIS 6905 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Cases that cite this one

2 later published cases cite this decision.

Miller v. Carson (United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida 1981)
Town of Palm Beach v. State ex rel. Steinhardt (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1975)

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Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

The appellants were petitioners in a mandamus proceeding in the circuit court. The circuit judge denied the petition for a writ of mandamus and this appeal followed. The appellants have failed to show error because mandamus is a discretionary writ which will issue only upon the showing of a clear legal right in the relator to the performance of a ministerial act. See State ex rel. Eichenbaum v. Cochran, Fla.1959, 114 So.2d 797. See also State ex rel. Long v. Carey, 121 Fla. 515, 164 So. 199 (1935).

Affirmed.

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