STATE, EX REL. ROBERT J. BOONE,
v.
R. A. GRAY, SECRETARY OF STATE
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The Florida Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of mandamus, holding that the Secretary of State had no legal duty to recall a statement that the relator's campaign expense statement was not timely filed and to notify county commissioners of the relator's qualification for the ballot.
No, the Secretary of State has no legal duty to perform the acts requested by the relator. The court denied the petition for a writ of mandamus.
“The relator's "petition for Alternative Writ of Mandamus requiring the Respondent to recall from the Board of County Commissioners from the several Counties, the statement that Relator's campaign expense statement was not received and filed within the period required by statute and that said Secretary of State, the Respondent herein, should be required to immediately notify all County Commissioners of the several counties that your Relator was properly qualified and his name should be printed upon the official ballot of the primary election for August 11, 1936" is denied.”
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— The relator’s “petition for Alternative Writ of Mandamus requiring the Respondent to recall from the Board of County Commissioners from the several Counties, the statement that Relator’s campaign expense statement was not received and filed within the period required by statute and that said Secretary of State, the *105Respondent herein, should be required to immediately notify all County Commissioners of the several counties that your Relator was properly qualified and his name should be printed upon the official ballot of the primary election for August 11, 1936” is denied. There is no showing of a legal duty of the respondent Secretary of State to perform the acts stated in the prayer of the petition for an alternative writ of mandamus.
Petition denied.
Whitfield, C. J., and Terrell, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.