City of Jacksonville v. Basnett

The appellees, Basnett and others, filed their petition before the Judge of the Circuit Court, under section 4, chapter 151, Laws, which authorizes the Judge to set aside an illegal assessment of taxes upon' petition setting forth such illegality, accompanied “with the evidence to sustain it.” At January Term, Á. D. 1883, a like case was presented to this court, and we there held that the assessment as it then appeared was not lawfully made. Basnett vs. City of Jacksonville, 19 Fla., 664. By reference to that case it will be seen that this court held that section 23 of chapter 1688, Laws, as…