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Chambers v. County of St. Johns

Supreme Court of Florida
Oct 29, 1927
94 Fla. 814 (Fla. 1927)

Summary

determining that the " proceedings complained of do not show such vital irregularity with irremediable injury to the petitioners as to justify the issuing of a writ of certiorari"

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Opinion

Opinion Filed October 29, 1927.

Writ denied.

Bassett and Hunter, for Petition.


Application for writ of certiorari in condemnation proceedings.

The transcript of the record attached as an exhibit to the petition is not certified to.

In the Spafford case 110 So. Rep. 451, an appropriation of lands was ordered and made pending condemnation proceedings, in violation of organic property rights that could not be adequately remedied on writ of error after final judgment in the condemnation proceedings.

In this case there was no illegal appropriation of the lands before condemnation. Errors committed in condemnation proceedings may be reviewed on writ of error. Even though a supersedeas on a writ of error in condemnation proceedings be not allowable under the statute; yet, if the preservation of the particular property in its existing status be essential to the administration of justice in the cause, the Constitution empowers this Court "to issue all writs necessary or proper to the complete exercise of its jurisdiction"; and this authority may be exercised upon proceedings by writ of error or appeal as well as by certiorari or other original writs or process.

The petitioners have refused to participate in the proceedings to determine the value of the lands; and errors if any in the condemnation proceedings, that injure the petitioners were remediable by writ of error. The proceedings complained of do not show such vital irregularity with irremediable injury to the petitioners as to justify the issuing of a writ of certiorari.

ELLIS, C. J., AND WHITFIELD, TERRELL, STRUM, BROWN AND BUFORD, J. J., concur.


Summaries of

Chambers v. County of St. Johns

Supreme Court of Florida
Oct 29, 1927
94 Fla. 814 (Fla. 1927)

determining that the " proceedings complained of do not show such vital irregularity with irremediable injury to the petitioners as to justify the issuing of a writ of certiorari"

Summary of this case from Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office v. J.B.
Case details for

Chambers v. County of St. Johns

Case Details

Full title:W. A. CHAMBERS ET AL., Petitioners, v. COUNTY OF ST. JOHNS, Defendant

Court:Supreme Court of Florida

Date published: Oct 29, 1927

Citations

94 Fla. 814 (Fla. 1927)
114 So. 526

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