GRAHAM v. EDWARDS

No. 85-184.

472 So.2d 803 (1985)

Bob GRAHAM, Governor of the State of Florida, George Firestone, Secretary of State, Jim Smith, Attorney General, Gerald A. Lewis, Comptroller, William Gunter, State Treasurer, Ralph D. Turlington, Commissioner of Education, and Doyle E. Conner, Commissioner of Agriculture, As and Constituting the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the State of Florida, Appellants, v. John R. EDWARDS, Sr., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied August 6, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Barkett, Tallahassee, for appellants.

Albury, Morgan & Hendrick, Key West, Messer, Rhodes & Vickers and Terry E. Lewis and Cari L. Roth, Tallahassee, for appellee.

Richard Gentry, Steve Lewis, Tallahassee, for Florida Home Builders Ass'n as amicus curiae.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HENDRY and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


HENDRY, Judge.

The appellant/state brings this interlocutory appeal from an order denying its motion to dismiss or in the alternative to transfer venue and granting appellee John Edwards' motion for preliminary injunction. The two issues on appeal are whether the trial court abused its discretion in granting a preliminary injunction against the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund (Board) and whether venue is proper only in Leon County, Florida...

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