State ex rel. Harris v. Wiecking

Citations

• 65 Fla. 70
• 61 So. 125

Syllabus

<p>Mandamus Lies to Compel Clerks to Permit Parties to Examine and Make Extracts From Public ■ ' Records, Including Documents Filed For Record But Hot Actually Recorded.</p> <p>Under the provisions of our statutes the public generally, including any person or firm who may be engaged in the enterprise of compiling a complete set of abstract books of the titles to all the real estate in a county, have the continuous right at all reasonable hours and times, by themselves or their agents, to inspect and make extracts from any and all of the public records in the offices of the clerks of the Circuit Courts, including all instruments relating to real or personal property that are authorized or required to be recorded, from the time they are filed with such clerics .for record, though not yet actually spread upon the record books; and mandamus lies to compel such clerks to permit the exercise of such right.</p>