City of Coral Gables v. City of Miami

Thomas, J. —

This controversy 'between the cities of Coral Gables and Miami, hereinafter referred to as appellant and appellee, respectively, arose over a franchise granted by the latter to the assignor of the former permitting the operation of a street railway system. The facts to which we are asked to apply the law are gleaned from the bill of complaint, no testimony or evidence having been introduced at the time application was made for a temporary injunction to prohibit the collection by appellee of a tax of five percent of the gross receipts in Miami from buses-operated by appellant on…