Smithers v. North St. Lucie River Drainage Dist.

TERRELL, Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellees against appellants as defendants for declaratory decree to construe Chapter 28379, Acts of 1953. The complaint points out that North St. Lucie River Drainage District was organized in 1917 by decree of the Circuit Court as provided by Chapter 6458, Acts of 1913, now F.S. Chapter 298, F.S.A., that over the years its area has been re*236duced to approximately 62,500 acres, that the history of drainage tax collections has followed closely that.pattern of state and county collections in St. Lucie County and that as a result of foreclosures on…