Tompkins Land Corporation Ferndale Groves v. Wade

TERRELL, J.:

This appeal is from a final decreee denying relief from tax assessments alleged to be in excess of true cash value and discriminatory as compared with the valuation of other properties in the county. The bill of complaint was seasonably filed and every other prerequisite was complied with.

It appears from the record that the lands in question were in the main low and undrained from which the timber had been removed and that they were of little value except for pasture purposes. It also appears that the law as defined in City of Fort Myers v. Heitman, 148 Fla. 432, 4 So. (2nd) 871;…