STATE EX REL. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILROAD COMPANY v. KING


93 So.2d 368 (1957)

STATE of Florida, ex rel. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, a corporation, and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, a corporation, Relators, v. Wilbur C. KING, Alan S. Boyd, and Jerry W. Carter, as members of and constituting Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, and Rockana Carriers, Inc., a corporation, as an interested party, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida, Special Division B.

March 6, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Fred McMullen of Ausley & Ausley, Tallahassee, and Allen & Dell, Tampa, for relators.

Lewis W. Petteway and Guyte P. McCord, Jr., Tallahassee, for Florida R.R. and Public Utilities Commission.

Hill, Hill & Dickenson, Tampa, for Rockana Carriers, Inc., respondents.


THOMAS, Acting Chief Justice.

This court issued an alternative writ of mandamus, 6 November 1956, commanding the respondents, who are members of Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, to cancel a "letter order" of the commission granting temporary authority to Rockana Carriers, Inc., to engage in certain transportation operations, and to revoke the rule of the commission, numbered 61, or to show cause for their failure to comply with the writ.

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