Opinion

Board Public Instruction v. First National Bank

  • 111 Fla. 4
  • 143 So. 738
  • 1932 Fla. LEXIS 1539
Court
Supreme Court of Florida
Filed
Oct 8, 1932
Status
Published
On the bench
Andrews, Brown, Buford, Davis, Ellis, Terrell, Whitfield
Cited by
15 cases

holding suit for specific performance of contract for sale of land was a transitory action

How later courts described this case

  • holding suit for specific performance of contract for sale of land was a transitory action
  • "[A]ction was transitory where the transaction on which it was founded might have taken place anywhere...."

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

The record in this cause having been considered by the Court, and the foregoing opinion prepared under Chapter 14553, Acts of 1929, adopted by the Court as its opinion, it is considered, ordered and adjudged by the Court that the judgment of the court below be, and the same is hereby, affirmed.

BUFORD, C. J., and WHITFIELD, TERRELL, BROWN and DAVIS, J. J., concur.

ELLIS, J., dissents.

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