LUMMUS v. CUSHMAN


41 So.2d 895 (1949)

LUMMUS et al. v. CUSHMAN.

Supreme Court of Florida, Division B.

July 26, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Worley, Gautier & Cannon, Miami, for J.N. Lummus, Jr., as Tax Assessor of Dade County and Weintraub, Martin & Schwartz, Miami, for H. Earnest Overstreet, as Tax Collector of Dade County, Florida, appellants.

Evans, Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston & Simmons and Herbert S. Sawyer, Miami, for appellee.


SEBRING, Justice.

The appeal is from a decree entered in favor of the plaintiff below.

Laura Cushman filed a bill of complaint against the tax assessor and the tax collector of Dade County, Florida, which contained the following allegations:

The plaintiff was the owner of certain land in Dade County which she had purchased in 1926 for the sole, exclusive and only purpose of operating and maintaining a private school thereon to be known as Cushman School...

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