PAXSON v. COLLINS

No. 57-345.

100 So.2d 672 (1958)

James L. PAXSON, Jr., and Amelia P. Farquhar, Appellants, v. LeROY COLLINS, Governor, Ray E. Green, Comptroller, J. Edwin Larson, Treasurer, Richard W. Ervin, Attorney General and Nathan Mayo, Commissioner of Agriculture, as and composing The Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida, Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District, a public corporation of the State of Florida, Dade County, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, and Charles F. Harvey and Juanita Harvey, his wife, and Helen A. Arnold, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.

Rehearing Denied March 14, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sinclair & Nicholson, and Linton R. Lovett, Miami, for appellants.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., Fred M. Burns, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles Vocelle, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for appellee Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of State of Florida.

Horton & Horton, and Martin Fine, Miami, for appellees Charles F. Harvey and Juanita Harvey, his wife, and Helen A. Arnold.

Sturrup & Gautier, Miami, for appellee Central & Southern Florida Flood Control District.

Sibley & Davis, Miami Beach, and Thomas Britton, Miami, for appellee Dade County.


E. HARRIS DREW, Associate Judge.

Appellants own land in Dade County bordering on navigable water. The original conveyance out of the United States described the property as government lots, the southerly boundary of each being shown on the surveys at that time to border on navigable water. In their complaint to quiet title they allege that subsequent to the date of the acquisition of the said land from the United States by their predecessors in title, said lots had...

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