City of St. Petersburg v. Certain Lands

BUFORD, J..:

In 1944 Pinellas County, under and by virtue of the provisions of Chapter 22079, Laws of Fla., Acts of 1943, filed suit in the Circuit Court of that County to quiet title against certain lands described in the bill of complaint, a part of which lands was situated in the city of St. Petersburg, and as to which the City of St. Petersburg held delinquent tax liens for unpaid taxes and unpaid improvement liens; The City of St. Petersburg was given notice of the institution of this suit but did not appear in said suit to contest the same.

Thereafter, on December 18, 1944, the Judge of…