Knight v. City of Miami

This controversy originated in a suit brought by appellants against appellees in the Court below seeking to restrain the City of Miami and certain of its officers from acting in a summary manner in accomplishing the destruction of fifty-three small dwelling houses owned by appellants and occupied by their tenants. The cause pro•ceeded to final hearing upon bill, answer and testimony taken, but the Chancellor in announcing his decree decided the case as being one of legal, and not equitable, cognizance and jurisdiction. So the appeal presents here the primary question whether or not the bill…