Merriman v. Hutchinson

The bill of complaint brought by a tax payer alleges that a special or local law, Chapter 11128, Acts of 1925, which, forms a taxing district now co-extensive with Indian River County, and purports to authorize a tax to pay for bonds to be issued to raise funds to eradicate mosquitoes in the district, is null and void and unconstitutional because it violates the provision of Section 20, of Article VI, of the State Constitution, which forbids local or special laws “for assessment and collection of taxes for State and county purposes,” and because it deprives complainant of property without due…