POWELL v. KELLY

No. 37994.

223 So.2d 305 (1969)

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, Petitioners, v. J.R. KELLY As Tax Collector of Bradford County, Florida, and Fred O. Dickinson, Jr., As Comptroller of the State of Florida, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

May 28, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward McCarthy, Jr., of Bryant, Freeman, Richardson & Watson, Jacksonville, for petitioners.

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

John F. Corrigan, Jacksonville, John E. Norris, Lake City, and William H. Adams, III, Jacksonville, as amicus curiae.


ADKINS, Justice.

This cause is here on petition for writ of certiorari supported by certificate of the District Court of Appeal, First District, that its decision reported in 214 So.2d 347 is one which involves a question of great public interest. See § 4(2), Article V, Fla. Const. F.S.A.

Petitioners, plaintiffs below, challenged the valuation for ad valorem tax purposes of their timberlands as made by the Bradford...

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