EDWARDS v. TOWN OF LANTANA


77 So.2d 245 (1955)

A.O. EDWARDS, individually, and A.O. Edwards, and S.D. Morris, as Trustees of Palm Beach Shores, Inc., a dissolved Florida corporation, Appellants, v. TOWN OF LANTANA, a municipal corporation, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division B.

Rehearing Denied February 1, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earnest, Lewis, Smith & Jones, West Palm Beach, for appellants.

Willard Utley, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


THOMAS, Justice.

The appellants, Trustees of Palm Beach Shores, Inc., a dissolved corporation, sued the Town of Lantana and lost.

The prime question is the sufficiency of the bill, we will now analyze, to withstand a motion to dismiss.

The corporation purchased a tract of land that was rather remote and accessible to Lantana Avenue only by an unpaved road. It was the purpose of the corporation to subdivide the property and sell it by lots but in order...

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