COTTINGHAM v. STATE

No. 95-7.

656 So.2d 597 (1995)

Almeria T. COTTINGHAM, Anne M. Clark, Helen T. Kerr, Hugh C. Macfarlane, William W. Arnold, Charles E. Arnold, Coastal Caribbean Oils & Minerals, Ltd., a Bermuda Corporation, Appellants, v. STATE of Florida, Honorable Lawton Chiles, Governor, Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Bob Crawford, Commissioner of Agriculture, Jim Smith, Secretary of State, Gerald A. Lewis, State Comptroller, Tom Gallagher, State Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner, and Douglas L. Jamerson, Commission of Education, as and constituting the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, State of Florida; and as constituting the Executive Board of the Department of Environmental Protection, State of Florida, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

June 23, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charlie Luckie, Jr. of McGee, Luckie & Dayton, P.A., Brooksville, Charles W. Pittman and Susan W. Fox of Macfarlane, Ausley, Ferguson & McMullen, Tampa, for appellants Almeria T. Cottingham, Anne M. Clark, Helen T. Kerr, Hugh C. Macfarlane, William W. Arnold and Charles E. Arnold, et al.

Robert J. Angerer and Robert J. Angerer, Jr. of Angerer & Angerer, Tallahassee, for appellant Coastal Caribbean Oils & Minerals, Ltd.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Jonathan A. Glogau, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellees.


ORDER TRANSFERRING APPEAL

VAN NORTWICK, Judge.

Appellants seek reversal of an order of the Hernando County Circuit Court transferring venue of this cause from Hernando County to Leon County. Initially, this appeal was filed in the Fifth District Court of Appeal, but, citing Vasilinda v. Lozano, 631 So.2d 1082 (Fla. 1994), the Fifth District Court of Appeal transferred the appeal to this court. Because the...

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