CENTRAL & S. FLA. FLOOD CON. DIST. v. OKEELANTA SUGAR REF., INC.

No. 33240.

168 So.2d 537 (1964)

CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FLORIDA FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT, a public corporation, Appellant, v. OKEELANTA SUGAR REFINERY, INC., a corporation, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

November 4, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Grafton, Thomas J. Schwartz and William C. White, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

George H. Salley, of Salley & Paul, Miami, for appellee.


CALDWELL, Justice.

In his final decree the chancellor directly passed upon the validity of a state statute giving this Court jurisdiction of the cause on appeal.

The appellant District was the plaintiff below in a suit for injunctive relief against Okeelanta Sugar Refinery, Inc., appellee. The District sought to halt dragline operations and prevent construction of dikes, levees or canals by Okeelanta on its lands, located within the flood plain of the St....

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