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CONE v. RORICK

No. 9451.

112 F.2d 894 (1940)

CONE, Governor, et al. v. RORICK et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 21, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Couper Gibbs, Atty. Gen. of Florida, H. E. Carter, M. C. McIntosh, and Tyrus A. Norwood, Asst. Attys. Gen., of Florida, Fred H. Kent, of Jacksonville, Fla., and John D. Kennedy, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., for appellant.

William H. Watson and S. Pasco, both of Pensacola, Fla., and William Roberts, of New York City, for appellees.

Before SIBLEY, HOLMES, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

This litigation began in 1931 by a bill in behalf of bondholders of Everglades Drainage District in Florida for injunction and other relief against an Act of the Florida legislature passed in 1929, Acts Fla.1929, c. 13633, which was alleged to have impaired unconstitutionally the bond contract. Another Act was passed in 1931, Acts.Fla.1931, c. 14717, which was attacked on like grounds in a supplemental bill, and a third Act passed in 1937, Acts...

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