EAST COAST GROCERY COMPANY v. COLLINS


96 So.2d 793 (1957)

EAST COAST GROCERY COMPANY, a Florida corporation, Appellant, v. LeRoy COLLINS, Governor, Ray E. Green, Comptroller, J. Edwin Larson, Treasurer, Richard W. Ervin, Attorney General, Nathan Mayo, Commissioner of Agriculture, as and composing the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida, Division A.

Rehearing Denied September 18, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip G. Nourse, Fort Pierce, for appellant.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Fred M. Burns, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.


THOMAS, Justice.

Suit was instituted in the Circuit Court of St. Lucie County by East Coast Grocery Company against the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund and was dismissed by the chancellor on the sole ground that there was "want of proper venue."

The parties have divergent views about the nature of the proceedings. The appellant insists, "the opinion of the Attorney's [sic] General's office and the Opinion of the Court below notwithstanding," to quote...

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