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FORBES PIONEER BOAT LINE v. BOARD OF COMMRS.

No. 188.

258 U.S. 338 (1922)

FORBES PIONEER BOAT LINE v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF EVERGLADES DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 10, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James M. Carson for plaintiff in error.

Mr. William Glenn Terrell for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit, begun in 1917, to recover tolls unlawfully collected from the plaintiff, the plaintiff in error, for passage through the lock of a canal. The Supreme Court of Florida sustained the declaration, 77 Fla. 742, but on the day of the decision the Legislature passed an act, c. 7865, Acts of 1919, that purported to validate the collection. The act was pleaded. The plaintiff demurred setting up

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