State Ex Rel. Johnson v. City of Sarasota

Brown, C. J.,

(after stating the facts) :

The demurrer to the answer raises two primary questions: (1) Whether the description of the territorial limits is so indefinite as to render the act invalid, and (2) whether the act is rendered unconstitutional by including within the territorial limits some sixty-odd square miles of territory, many sections of which are sparsely or wholly uninhabited.

I. As to the first question, the charge of uncertainty is based on the description of the eastern boundary — especially by reason of the inclusion of the words indicated by italics in the following…