ROBERTS v. NEWS-PRESS PUB. CO. INC.

No. 81-685.

409 So.2d 1089 (1982)

Roland ROBERTS, Ernie Averill, Mike Roeder, Wade Scaffe, and Harry Rodda, As the Duly Elected Board of County Commissioners of Lee County, Florida, and Lavon Wisher, As County Administrator of Lee County, Florida, Appellants, v. NEWS-PRESS PUBLISHING CO., INC., d/b/a Fort Myers News-Press, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied February 23, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Yaeger, County Atty., and Neale Montgomery, Asst. County Atty., Fort Myers, for appellants.

Steven Carta of Smith, Carta & Ringsmuth, Fort Myers, for appellee.


CAMPBELL, Judge.

We have before us another episode in the continuing saga of the News-Press Publishing Company versus Lee County or vice versa. The case reaches us by appeal from the trial court's final judgment granting appellee's petition for a writ of mandamus directed to the appellants as the county commissioners and county administrator of Lee County, Florida. We reverse.

The final judgment ordered appellants to allow appellee immediate general access...

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