CITY OF OPA-LOCKA v. METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY

Nos. 70-272, 70-334.

247 So.2d 755 (1971)

CITY OF OPA-LOCKA, Appellant, v. METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, the Board of County Commissioners, Acting As the Dade County Port Authority, et al., Appellees. FIDELITY AND CASUALTY COMPANY OF NEW YORK, Appellant, v. METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, the Board of County Commissioners, Acting As the Dade County Port Authority, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied June 4, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Weintraub & Weintraub, Miami, for City of Opa-Locka.

Dixon, Bradford, Williams, McKay & Kimbrell, Miami, for Fidelity and Casualty Co. of New York.

Stuart L. Simon, County Atty., for Dade County.

William W. Gibbs, for Board of County Commissioners acting as Dade County Port Authority.

McCarthy, Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, for Airway Hotel, Inc.

Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwody & Cole, Miami, for Shell Oil Co.

Walters, Moore & Costanzo, Miami, for Aviation Investments, Inc.

Batchelor, Brodnax, Guthrie & Kindred, Miami, for Miami Aviation Corp.

Bolles, Goodwin, Ryskamp & Ware, Miami, for Southern Airways of Fla.

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


PEARSON, Chief Judge.

These appeals are from a final judgment discharging an alternative writ of mandamus and dismissing the petition. The judgment did however, declare the rights of some of the numerous parties by a holding that a preliminary tax roll filed by the Dade County Tax Assessor was valid with the exception of the property interests of certain of the intervenors. A further provision of the judgment approved an opinion of the Dade County attorney, "as a...

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