POWELL v. KELLY

No. J-344.

214 So.2d 347 (1968)

Luther G. POWELL and May F. Powell, His Wife; John Powell and Luther G. Powell, As Trustees under Testamentary Trust Established by the Last Will and Testament of Luther C. Powell, Deceased, and Container Corporation of America, a Delaware Corporation, Appellants, v. J.R. KELLY, As Tax Collector of Bradford County, Florida, and Fred O. Dickinson, Jr., As Comptroller of the State of Florida, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.

Rehearing Denied October 18, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McCarthy, Adams & Foote, Jacksonville, for appellants.

Theron A. Yawn, Jr., Starke, for appellees.


WIGGINTON, Chief Judge.

Appellants brought this action in the Circuit Court of Bradford County by which they challenged the 1965 ad valorem tax assessment levied against their timberlands. From an adverse final judgment sustaining the validity of the assessment, this appeal is taken.

Appellants are the owners of approximately 36,000 acres of timberlands in Bradford County. The county tax assessor relied largely upon the market value approach as agricultural...

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