Walter with former Florida Supreme Court chief justices Dick Ervin and Steve O’Connell, who both wrote effusive, generous forewords for the 1st volume of the Florida Supreme Court history, praised in reviews as the most outstanding state supreme court history ever written. Both Ervin and O’Connell were good friends with prominent Florida attorney Walter W. Manley, Walter’s father.
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