BD. OF T. OF INT. IMP. TRUST F. v. MOBIL OIL

No. 82-2050.

455 So.2d 412 (1984)

The BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF the INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT TRUST FUND OF the State of Florida, Appellant, v. MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Granted September 4, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Beckham and James R. Hubbard of Beckham & McAliley, P.A., Jacksonville, and William C. Crenshaw of Valdes-Fauli, Richardson & Cobb, P.A., Miami, for appellant.

Chesterfield Smith, Julian Clarkson, and Hume F. Coleman of Holland & Knight, Tallahassee, for appellee.

Betty Steffens, General Counsel, for Governor Bob Graham, and J. Kendrick Tucker, Deputy Atty. Gen. for Atty. Gen. Jim Smith, Tallahassee, as amici curiae.


HOBSON, Acting Chief Judge.

The Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the State of Florida ("Trustees"), codefendant below in a quiet title action, appeals a final summary judgment order rendered in favor of Mobil Oil Corporation ("Mobil"), plaintiff below. We affirm.

In April 1982, Mobil, a New York corporation engaged in the mining and processing of phosphate rock in Polk County, Florida, initiated an in rem action in the Circuit...

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