CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE v. TOWN OF HACIENDA VILLAGE, INC.

No. 33547.

172 So.2d 451 (1965)

CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, Appellant, v. TOWN OF HACIENDA VILLAGE, INC., Florida, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied March 29, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Shelby Dale, James E. Edwards and William J. Lee, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

John D. Kruse, Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.


THORNAL, Justice.

We have for review by appeal a decree of a chancellor which held invalid a section of Chapter 63-1335, Laws of 1963.

The pivotal problem involves the extent of the power of the Florida Legislature to control the annexation of territory by a municipal corporation.

By Chapter 63-1335, supra, the Florida Legislature amended the Charter of the City of Fort Lauderdale. Chapter 57-1322, Laws of 1957. By the 1963 Act, the Legislature established...

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