McNevin v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 1978
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ready v. Safeway Rock Company · 59 So. 2d 636 - May v. Holley · Miami Water Works Local No. 654 v. City of Miami · 111 So. 2d 446 - City of Miami v. Steckloff · Hasle v. Maasbrock
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““The Declaratory Judgments Act, Chapter 87, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., has been the subject of numerous opinions from the appellate courts • of this state and the several factors necessary to activate a court’s jurisdiction under the statute have been the object of considerable repetition. E. g. May v. Holley, Fla.1952, 59 So.2d 636 ; Ready v. Safeway Rock Company, 1946, 157 Fla. 27 , 24 So.2d 808 ; Colby v. Colby, FlaApp. 1960, 120 So.2d 797 . No useful purpose could be served by contributing further to this already substantial body of case law. For present purposes we need consider only one of the necessary ingredients of a case cognizable under Chapter 87, the ingredient implicit in the observation that the Act was designed to provide relief when ‘technical or social advances have tended to obscure or place in doubt one’s rights, immunities, status or privilege’ and explicit in the statement that proceedings under the Act are appropriate when ‘some immunity, power, privilege or right of the complaining party is dependent upon the facts or the law applicable to the facts.’ [Citing in the margin May v. Holley, Fla.1952, 59 So.2d 636, 639 .] To sustain an action for declaratory relief the complaining party must demonstrate that he has a judicially cognizable, bona fide and direct interest in the result sought by the action. State Department of Public Welfare v. Melser, Fla.1953, 69 So.2d 347 ; Miami Water Works Local No. 654 v. City of Miami, 1946, 157 Fla. 445 , 26 So.2d 194 ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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