Tyler v. Thomas

— June 15, 1933, this Court by equal division affirmed an interlocutory order of the Circuit Court of Leon County in the case of J. M. Lee, as Comptroller, v. I. W. Smith and sixteen others as tax collectors of certain counties in this State, including the petitioner, Frank M. Tyler. The order of the Circuit Court so affirmed overruled a motion to dismiss the bill of complaint therein and restrained the Comptroller from paying to others than appellees as claimants certain funds held by him in which said claimants asserted a vested right by virtue of their office. The funds brought in question…