SOUTHERN BELL TEL. & TEL. CO. v. RAY

No. 81-17.

402 So.2d 16 (1981)

SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO., a New York Corporation, Appellant, v. G. Troy RAY, Jr., As Tax Collector of Seminole County, Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied August 13, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Barfield, Miami, Nathan H. Wilson, Jacksonville, William H. Adams, III of Mahoney, Hadlow & Adams, Jacksonville, and Drury B. Thompson, Atlanta, Ga., of counsel, for appellant.

Nikki Clayton, County Atty. for Seminole County, and Robert A. McMillan, Asst. County Atty. for Seminole County, Sanford, for appellee.


COBB, Judge.

This appeal involves a dispute between the telephone company and the county tax collector as to the legal rate that the county may charge as an occupational license tax. Both parties below, Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company and Ray, as Tax Collector of Seminole County, moved for summary judgment. The trial court agreed with the tax collector's interpretation of the disputed statute, and entered summary judgment in his favor.

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