COLEMAN v. WATTS


81 So.2d 650 (1955)

Robert C.G. COLEMAN, Petitioner, v. Olin E. WATTS, Clarence A. Brown, Bert H. Lane, A. Mack Wing, Weldon G. Starry, Sam T. Dell, Jr., Nathaniel J. Klein, Charles H. Scott, as and constituting the State Board of Law Examiners of the State of Florida, and Guyte P. McCord, as Secretary of the said State Board of Law Examiners of the State of Florida, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division B.

Rehearing Denied June 3, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Ben Watkins of Truett & Watkins, Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Ralph M. McLane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondents.


SEBRING, Justice.

The petitioner, Robert C.G. Coleman, is an attorney duly admitted to practice in the courts of Ohio. In October, 1953, Coleman filed his sworn application with the Florida Board of Law Examiners for permission to take the bar examination preliminary to admission to the bar of this state. In the course of its usual investigation upon such applications, the Board presumably developed certain information concerning petitioner's moral fitness, which...

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