STATE OF FLORIDA, EX REL., CARY D. LANDIS, AS ATTORNEY-GENERAL, PLAINTIFF,
v.
J. E. HARVEY, A. E. MCGEEHEE, L. J. BATZ, PIERRE MAHAFFEY AND THOMAS N. TAPPY, DEFENDANTS

Fla. | 1933-05-15
. Davis, C. J. and Whitfield, Terrell and Buford, J. J., concur.
110 Fla. 244 Florida Supreme Court (1933) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 148 So. 581
Cited by 14 cases

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Synopsis

This Florida Supreme Court case, decided by a per curiam opinion, addresses a demurrer and motions related to an information filed by the Attorney General. The court's decision was based on a stipulation that its ruling in a related case, State of Florida v. Prevatt, would apply.


Holding

The court overruled the demurrer to the information, denied the motion to quash the information, and granted the motion to strike portions of the information.


Key Quotes

“That any decision rendered by this Court in the case of State of Florida, ex rel., Cary D. Landis, as Attorney General, v. A. B. Prevatt, J. G. Dreka, Lillian Frances Nordman, W. E. Swope, and G. A. Tyler, now pending before this Court and which case has been briefed and orally argued would be applicable and a precedent for any judgment to be rendered herein.”

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Facts & Procedural History

The case involves an information filed by the State of Florida, ex rel., Cary D. Landis, as Attorney-General, against several defendants. The defendan…

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Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam.

Per Curiam.

-This cause having been submitted to the Court upon a written stipulation of counsel “That any decision rendered by this Court in the case of State of Florida, ex rel., Cary D. Landis, as Attorney General, v. A. B. Prevatt, J. G. Dreka, Lillian Frances Nordman, W. E. Swope, and G. A. Tyler, now pending before this Court and which case has been briefed and orally argued would be applicable and a precedent for any judgment to be rendered herein.”

It is thereupon considered, ordered and adjudged by this Court that the demurrer to the information herein be and the same is hereby overruled, that the motion to quash being directed at the information as a whole be, and the same is *245Hereby' denied, and that the motion to strike said portions of the information in this cause be and the same is hereby granted. See State ex rel. Cary D. Landis, Attorney General, v. Prevatt, et al., filed May 2, 1933.

It is so ordered.

. Davis, C. J. and Whitfield, Terrell and Buford, J. J., concur.


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  • N.Y. Life Ins. Co. v. Oates, 122 Fla. 540 (Fla. 1935)
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  • …Chancellor in this regard. It, therefore, follows that the mortgage was void as a lien upon the homestead under authority of the opinions and judgments in the cases of McEwen v. Schenck, 108 Fla. 119, 146 Sou. 839; Flowers v. Schenck, 110 Fla. 256, 148 Sou. 581; Murphy v. Duncan, 111 Fla. 548, 149 Sou. 594; and Oates et al., v. New York Life Insurance Co., 113 Fla. 678, 152 Sou. 671. The decree appealed from should, .therefore, be affirmed. It is so ordered. Whitfield, P. J., and Brown, J., concur. . El…
  • …ans, 113 Fla. 839, 152 South. Rep. 623, and the views expressed by me in my dissenting opinion in the case of M. A. Smith, as Liquidator of the Bank of Wauchula v. McEwen and wife, 119 Fla. 588, 161 So. 68. See also Flowers v. Schenck, 110 Fla. 256, 148 South. Rep. 581, in which I said that the plea so far as its averments were concerned, set up a good defense, but because the rule requiring verification and certificate of counsel was ignored the plea should not have been permitted to stay in the record.…

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