BENTON v. CIR. COURT FOR SECOND JUD. CIR

No. TT-303.

382 So.2d 753 (1980)

John BENTON, Petitioner, v. The CIRCUIT COURT FOR the SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT and the Honorable Charles Miner et al., Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

March 31, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen E. Tunstall of Underwood, Gillis, Karcher, Reinert & Valle, Miami, for petitioner.

Charles J. Grimsley, Tallahassee, for respondent Ancillary Receiver of United America Insurors, Inc.

John M. McNatt of Mathews, Osborne, Ehrlich, McNatt, Gobelman & Cobb, Jacksonville, for respondent Florida Ins. Guaranty Ass'n.


WENTWORTH, Judge.

This cause is before us upon petition for a writ of prohibition. Petitioner has not demonstrated that he is without other adequate means of redress for the alleged wrong about to be inflicted by the trial court. Prohibition will not lie to usurp the functions of an appeal. State v. Trammell, 192 So. 175 (Fla. 1939); Corbin v. State, 324 So.2d 203 (Fla. 1st DCA 1976).

Accordingly, the petition...

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