85 Fla. 282 | Fla. | 1923
Lead Opinion
The Judge of the Court of Eecord for Escambia County denied and dismissed a petition for an alternative writ of mandamus and denied a motion to revoke such dismissal and to restore the cause to the docket for the purpose of allowing an amendment of the petition, and the relator took writ of error.
The petition in substance alleges that the relator is one of the trustees of public road bonds issued by Escambia County ; that as such trustee he is entitled to $1,731.91 as compensation due to him under the law, as commissions on bond proceeds received by the trustees; that the county commissioners and clerk of the Circuit Court refused to issue a warrant for the amount due the relator, the county commissioners being of opinion that the compensation to trustees is payable from the proceeds of the sale of the bonds- issued by the county and held by the trustees of such bonds, while the clerk of the Circuit Court is of the opinion that the compensation of bond trustees is payable
“Wherefore, relator having no other remedy in law, prays this Honorable Court to grant an alternative writ of mandamus therein and thereby commanding the said Leonard S. Gilmore as chairman, and H. E. Gandy, T. T. Wentworth, Jr., Gus Soderlind and Jefferson M. Herring-ton as members, and James Macgibbon as clerk and Langley Bell as deputy clerk of the Board of County Commissioners of Escambia County, Florida, to issue and deliver to relator a proper warrant, duly voucliered and signed, for the amount of his compensation as trustee of county bonds aforesaid in, to-wit: the sum of $1,731.91, drawn
Section 1549, Revised General Statutes of 1920, provides that: “The said trustees shall have such compensation for their services as follows-: for receiving the first ten thousand dollars, one and- one-half per cent.; for .all over ten thousand dollars, one-half of one per cent.; for disbursements, the same as allowed for receiving, to be paid out of the county treasury.”
Sections 1 and 4 of Chapter 8553, Acts.of 1921, apparently have some bearing on. the compensation of county bond trustees where the proceeds from the sale of county bonds for public road construction are turned over to the State Road Department.
It is not alleged when the county bonds were issued or whether the proceeds are being used by the county in constructing public roads or have been turned over to the
This is a matter that merits consideration by the legislative department of the State government.
Affirmed.
Rehearing
On Petition' for Rehearing.
In the amended petition for mandamus it is alleged that the bonds referred to had been sold by the County Commissioners for a stated amount and that the county bond trustees “now hold said sum in trust, pending the letting of .contracts under the authority of said Board of County Commissioners for the construction of paved roads in said county, and said fund is not in whole or part yet expended or disbursed;” but under Chapter 8553 the proceeds may be turned over to the
Rehearing denied.