J. TOM WATSON, AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA,
v.
HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY, A CORPORATION, ET AL.
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This case involves the same legal questions as a prior, related case, J. Tom Watson v. Spessard L. Holland et al. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's decision based on the ruling in the prior case.
Yes, the legal questions are the same as those in the prior case.
“In this case we have before us the same questions involved in the case of J. Tom Watson, as Attorney General of Florida, v. Spessard L. Holland, as Governor of Florida, J. M. Lee, as Comptroller of Florida, J. Edwin Larson, as Treasurer of Florida, and Nathan Mayo, as Commissioner of Agriculture of Florida and the said Holland, Lee, Larson and Mayo, as members of and collectively constituting a majority of the trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida, and Arnold Oil Explorations, Inc., a Florida Corporation, decided at this term.”
Establishes that the current case involves the same legal issues as a prior case.
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In this case we have before us the same questions involved in the case of J. Tom Watson, as Attorney General of Florida, v. Spessard L. Holland, as Governor of Florida, J. M. Lee, as Comptroller of Florida, J. Edwin Larson, as Treasurer of Florida, and Nathan Mayo, as Commissioner of Agriculture of Florida and the said Holland, Lee, Larson and Mayo, as members of and collectively constituting a majority of the trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida, and Arnold Oil Explorations, Inc., a Florida Corporation, decided at this term.
The final decree of the circuit court should be affirmed on authority of the opinion and. judgment in the case of J. Tom Watson, as Attorney General, v. Holland, et al., supra. It is so ordered.
Affirmed.
TERRELL, BROWN, CHAPMAN, THOMAS and SE-BRING, JJ., and HUTCHISON and MURPHREE, Circuit Judges, concur.
BUFORD, C. J., disqualified.
ADAMS, J., not participating.
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