TRUSTEES OF INTERNAL IMPROVE. FUND v. CLAUGHTON


86 So.2d 775 (1956)

TRUSTEES OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT FUND of the State of Florida, Appellants, v. E.N. CLAUGHTON et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

March 28, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., Fred M. Burns, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Richard H. Hunt and Hunt, Salley & Roman, Miami, for appellants.

Ward & Ward, Miami, for appellees E.N. Claughton and wife.

Lane, Muir, Wakefield, Frazier & Lane, Miami, for appellees A. Frank Katzentine and Ucola Katzentine, his wife, and Julio Sanchez and Willow Dean Sanchez, his wife.

John E. Cicero and Olavi M. Hendrickson, Miami, for appellee City of Miami.

Fuller Warren, Miami Beach, amicus curiae.


DREW, Chief Justice, and ROBERTS, Justice.

On June 20, 1916, the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida sold a small island in Dade County and some of the submerged lands surrounding it to Ray G. Burlingame and his wife, Margaret R. Burlingame. On said date the deed conveying the same was prepared, drawn and executed by said Trustees. This property lay easterly from certain uplands owned at that time by Mary Brickell. Insisting that the...

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