CITY OF CLEARWATER v. CALDWELL


75 So.2d 765 (1954)

CITY OF CLEARWATER, a municipal corporation, Herbert M. Brown, Guy L. Kennedy, Jack Russell, W.E. Strang, Jr., and John W. Bates, as Mayor-Commissioner and Commissioners, respectively, of the City of Clearwater, and F.G. Nelson, Appellants, v. L.S. CALDWELL and Charles A. Kerekes, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

Rehearing Denied November 11, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H.H. Baskin, Sr., H.H. Baskin, Jr., George W. Smith, Clearwater, Mabry, Reaves, Carlton, Fields & Ward, Tampa, Charles M. Phillips, Jr., Clearwater, for appellants.

Carroll R. Runyon, Bussey & Simmons, St. Petersburg, for appellees.


MATHEWS, Justice.

This case involves the right or power of the City of Clearwater to lease for fifty years, for profit or as an investment for the City, to a private individual for private gain or profit to him, a portion of land acquired by it in 1912 under its general power to acquire property for municipal purposes.

Taxpayers brought suit against the City of Clearwater and the private individual to whom the property is to be leased, seeking to enjoin the...

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