STATE EX REL. AYRES v. GRAY


69 So.2d 187 (1953)

STATE ex rel. AYRES v. GRAY et al.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

December 11, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willard Ayres, Ocala, for relator.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., Howard S. Dailey, Asst. Atty. Gen., and John D. Moriarty, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for R.A. Gray.

J. Lewis Hall, Tallahassee, for Brailey Odham.

Ben C. Willis and Charles S. Ausley, Tallahassee, for LeRoy Collins.

Marion Sibley, Miami Beach, and W.G. Ward, Miami, amici curiae.


THOMAS and MATHEWS, Justices.

Willard Ayres, as a citizen and taxpayer of the State of Florida, presented to this Court, 23 November 1953, a petition for extraordinary relief which had for its eventual purpose the determination of the question whether elections should be held in 1954 for the choice of a nominee and the election of a Governor to serve the remainder of the term of the late Dan McCarty, Governor of Florida, who died 28 September 1953. In the prayer the...

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