PETERS v. MEEKS

No. 32788.

163 So.2d 753 (1964)

Frederick C. PETERS, Berenice Todd Peters, Frederick Todd Peters, Lewis W. Peters, Ferguson E. Peters, Plantation Development Company, a Florida corporation, and Old Plantation Corporation, a Florida corporation, Appellants, v. W. Herman MEEKS, Jr., as Tax Collector of Broward County, Florida, and Ray E. Green, as Comptroller of the State of Florida, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied May 26, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl A. Hiaasen of McCune, Hiaasen, Crum & Ferris, Fort Lauderdale, for appellants.

Chancey & Chancey and Ross, Norman & Cory, Fort Lauderdale, for W. Herman Meeks, Jr., as Tax Collector of Broward County; John U. Lloyd, Fort Lauderdale, for Ray E. Green, as Comptroller of the State of Florida, appellees.


THOMAS, Justice.

In determining this dispute, appropriately described by the appellees as a "massive" attack on the 1961 tax roll of Broward County, we go first to the decree of the chancellor to ascertain what was decreed that vested jurisdiction in this court to review the case. We approve the description "massive" because of the prodigious amount of work reflected by the complaint and the original and reply briefs of the appellants totaling 108 pages in which appear...

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