REDWING CARRIERS, INC., FLORIDA TANK LINES, INC., PETROLEUM CARRIER CORPORATION, PETROLEUM CARRIER CORPORATION OF TAMPA, INC., AND FLEET TRANSPORT COMPANY OF FLORIDA, PETITIONERS,

v.

WILBUR C. KING, JERRY W. CARTER AND EDWIN L. MASON, AS MEMBERS OF AND CONSTITUTING THE FLORIDA RAILROAD AND PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, RESPONDENTS

Citator

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• McPHERSON v. Flynn, 397 So. 2d 665 (Fla. 1981)
  …power in the courts of this state to determine election contests and the right to hold legislative office. The courts in this state are without jurisdiction to determine the right of one who has been elected to legislative office. English v. Bryant, 152 So. 2d 167 (Fla.1963); State ex rel. Rigby v. Junkin, 146 Fla. 347, 1 So. 2d 177 (1941). At common law, except for limited application of quo warranto, there was no right to contest in court any public election, because such a contest is political in nature an…
• Staplin v. The Canal Auth. of the State of Fla., 208 So. 2d 853 (Fla. 1st DCA 1968)
  …re [*857] without substantial merit. The writ is accordingly discharged and the petition dismissed. CARROLL, DONALD K., and SPEC-TOR, JJ., concur. . F.S. §§, 374.051, 374.071, F.S.A. . 13 Fla.Jur. 38, Evidence, § 24; English v. Bryant, (Fla.1963) 152 So. 2d 167. . 12 Fla.Jur. 44, Eminent Domain, §§ 61, 62; Wilton v. St. Johns County, 98 Fla. 26. 123 So. 527. 65 A.L.R. 488. . Miller v. Florida Inland Navigation District, (Fla.App.1961) 130 So. 2d 615.…
• Harden v. Garrett, 483 So. 2d 409 (Fla. 1985)
  …Fla.1981). Recognizing the potentially intrusive and unbalancing impact of a judicial inquiry into the legislative processes, the courts have held themselves without jurisdiction to evaluate legislator’s qualifications. McPherson; English v. Bryant, 152 So. 2d 167 (Fla.1963); State ex rel. Rigby v. Junkin, 146 Fla. 347, 1 So. 2d 177 (1941). We find no principled basis for distinguishing “qualifications” from the constitutionally co-equal terms of “elections” and “returns”, and disallowing judicial inquiry onl…