DADE COUNTY PORT AUTHORITY AND BITUMINOUS CASUALTY CORPORATION, PETITIONERS,
v.
MARY O. KELLER, MARY LEE KING, AND FLORIDA INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION, RESPONDENTS

Fla. | 1960-02-03
THOMAS, C. J., and TERRELL, ROBERTS, THORNAL and O’CONNELL, JJ., concur.
117 So. 2d 731 Florida Supreme Court (1960) Negative Treatment
Cited by 112 cases

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Synopsis

The Florida Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari regarding a compensation award, finding the issue moot pending further proceedings in a companion case. The court allowed petitioners to reapply for the writ after the companion case concluded.


Holding

The petition for writ of certiorari is denied without prejudice, as the issue is currently moot pending the outcome of further proceedings in a companion case.


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“Their questions of course become moot if the first wife, in the further proceedings before the deputy commissioner for which the cause was remanded, fails to destroy the presumption of the validity of decedent's marriage to the second claimant, Mary Lee King.”

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The employer and its insurance carrier petitioned for a writ of certiorari to challenge a compensation award to the decedent's first wife. This case i…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

This is a companion case to King v. Keller, Fla., 117 So.2d 726. In this case the employer and its carrier question the award of compensation to decedent’s first wife, Mary O. Keller. Their questions of course become moot if the first wife, in the further proceedings before the deputy commissioner for which the cause was remanded, fails to destroy the presumption of the validity of decedent’s marriage to the second claimant, Mary Lee King.

For this reason, we hereby deny this petition for writ of certiorari but with express permission to the petitioners here to reapply, should they so desire, for such writ following the conclusion of the further proceedings ordered in the companion case.

It is so ordered.

THOMAS, C. J., and TERRELL, ROBERTS, THORNAL and O’CONNELL, JJ., concur.


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    …ugh both involve substantially the same controlling facts, identical rules of law were applied to each in such a way as to produce opposite results. That is sufficient to activate this court’s jurisdiction. See Nielsen v. City of Sarasota, Fla.1960, 117 So. 2d 731. If there are those who do not think we have jurisdiction on this theory, certainly we have it on the theory that the decision of the district court of appeal herein has generated confusion and instability among the precedents rendering the law “un…
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