HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLA. v. KEEFE

Nos. 7728-7730, 7786.

82 F.2d 127 (1936)

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLA., v. KEEFE. SAME v. BUCK. SAME v. EQUITABLE LIFE INS. CO. OF IOWA (two cases).

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 17, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. C. Tillman, G. L. Reeves, and John B. Sutton, all of Tampa, Fla., for appellant.

F. P. Fleming, of Jacksonville, Fla., for appellee Keefe.

W. H. Watson, S. Pasco, and C. J. Brown, all of Pensacola, Fla., for appellee Buck.

F. P. Fleming and J. M. Bryant, both of Jacksonville, Fla., for appellee Insurance Co.

Before FOSTER, SIBLEY, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

Chapter 10140 of the Laws of Florida of 1925 purports by description rather than by name to empower Hillsborough county to improve its highways through voluntarily formed road districts by issuing the county's general bonds, supported by general tax levies, with assessment of 75 per cent. or more of the cost against the benefited property in the district; the assessments as collected to be used to reduce the taxes. In 1926 and 1927 in several...

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