DADE COUNTY v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC.

No. 67-1017.

207 So.2d 13 (1968)

DADE COUNTY, a Political Subdivision of the State of Florida et al., Appellants, v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.

Rehearing Denied March 4, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Britton, County Atty., John G. Fletcher, Stuart Simon and Gerald T. Wetherington, Asst. County Attys., for appellant.

Dixon, DeJarnette, Bradford, Williams, McKay & Kimbrell and Joseph F. Jennings, Miami, Gambrell, Russell, Moye & Killorin and Theodore M. Forbes, Jr., and William G. Bell, Atlanta, Ga., for appellee.

Scott, McCarthy, Steel, Hector & Davis and Phillip Goldman, Miami, for National Airlines, amicus curiae.

Smathers & Thompson and Richard H. Hunt, Jr., Miami, for Pan American World Airways, amicus curiae.

Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder, Carson & Wahl, Miami, Mahoney, Hadlow, Chambers & Adams, Nathan H. Wilson, Jacksonville, Rexford L. Hawkins, Atlanta, Ga., for Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., amicus curiae.

Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder, Carson & Wahl and Aubrey V. Kendall, Miami, for American Tel. & Tel. Co., amicus curiae.

Rosenberg, Rosenberg, Reisman & Glass, Miami, for Cutler Ridge Regional Shopping Center and Greenfield Real Estate Investment, amicus curiae.

Before CHARLES CARROLL, C.J., and PEARSON and SWANN, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

This interlocutory appeal has been taken from an order directing the County Tax Collector to accept payment of a portion of the taxes assessed against the appellee and to grant appellee a four per cent discount for early payment of that portion of the tax tendered. The appellee brought suit in the circuit court alleging that personal property owned by it was illegally assessed, and that Dade County Tax Collector had refused to accept a tender of less than...

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