JUST VALUATION & TAXATION LEAGUE, INC. v. SIMPSON

No. 36486.

209 So.2d 229 (1968)

JUST VALUATION & TAXATION LEAGUE, INC., a Corporation et al., Appellants, v. Clyde H. SIMPSON, As Tax Collector of Duval County, Florida et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

April 10, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Bostwick of Bostwick & Bostwick, Jacksonville, Mallory E. Horne of Horne, Rhodes & Lamb, Tallahassee, for appellants.

F. William Marr, Jacksonville, for Clyde H. Simpson, Tax Collector, Duval County.

Walter C. Shea, Jacksonville, for Comptroller and Board of County Com'rs.

O.O. McCollum, Jr., Jacksonville, for Duval County Budget Commission.

Wm. Joe Sears, Jr., and Rogers, Towers, Bailey, Jones & Gay and Frank X. Friedmann, Jr., Jacksonville, for Tax Assessor.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., and Larry Levy, Asst. Atty. Gen., for Fred O. Dickinson, Jr., Comptroller of State of Florida.


ROBERTS, Justice.

We have for review the decision of a Chancellor denying relief to appellants-plaintiffs who sought to strike down on constitutional grounds the ad valorem tax machinery in Duval County, Florida. They contend that a unit of wealth invested in real or tangible personal property is required to pay more ad valorem taxes than the same unit of wealth invested in intangible personal property; that the investor in intangible personal property is favored...

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