STATE v. CITY OF MIAMI

No. 58088.

379 So.2d 651 (1980)

STATE of Florida et al., Appellants, v. CITY OF MIAMI, a Municipal Corporation, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

January 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet Reno, State's Atty., and Eric William Hendon, Asst. State's Atty., Miami, for appellants.

George F. Knox, Jr., City Atty., and Jose B. Alvarez, Deputy City Atty., Miami, Lucien C. Proby, Jr. of Proby & Adkins, Coral Gables, and Brown, Wood, Ivey, Mitchell & Petty, New York City, for appellee.


OVERTON, Justice.

This is a direct appeal from a final judgment validating revenue bonds in Dade County. We have jurisdiction.1 The questions we must decide are whether the issuance of the revenue bonds to finance the convention center-garage serves a valid municipal or public purpose and whether the City properly exercised its financing power.

In validating these revenue bonds, the trial court found the following facts. In 1964...

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