Wicker v. Board of Public Instruction of Dade County, Florida

As appellant states his case in his 'brief, “This suit is an action in equity based upon an admitted purchase resolution 1 of the Board of Public Instruction of Dade County, Florida, adopted and spread upon the Minutes at its regular meeting on May 9, 1928, for the sum of $40,000.00 therein named as the purchase price for certain land in Dade County, Florida”.

The claim was that litigation having been brought to recover on the notes given under the contract of September 28, 1926, the Supreme Court of Florida, on the first appeal, held that the Board had no power to issue the promissory notes,…