STATE EX REL. PETTIGREW v. KIRK

No. 40534.

243 So.2d 147 (1970)

STATE of Florida On the Relation of Richard A. PETTIGREW and Jerry Thomas, Relators, v. Claude R. KIRK et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

December 21, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Talbot D'Alemberte, Miami, for relators.

Leo Foster, of Parker, Foster & Madigan, Tallahassee, for Claude R. Kirk, Governor.

Robert L. Shevin and Stuart Simon, Miami, for Tom Adams, as Secretary of the State of Florida.

Jesse F. Warren, Jr., Tallahassee, for Board of Business Regulation, respondents.


BOYD, Justice.

This cause is before us on petition of Richard Pettigrew, as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and as a citizen and taxpayer of the State of Florida, and Jerry Thomas, as President of the Florida Senate, taxpayer and citizen of Florida, seeking issuance of a writ of quo warranto to prevent the Honorable Claude R. Kirk, Jr., as Governor, from appointing additional circuit judges whose offices...

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