Edwards v. Town of Lantana
Supreme Court of Florida
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, Justice.'
The appellants, Trustees of Palm Beach Shores, Inc., a dissolved corporation, sued the Town of Lantana and lost.
The prime question is the sufficiency of the bill, we will now analyze, to withstand a motion' to dismiss.
The corporation purchased a tract of land that was rather remote and accessible to Lantana Avenue only by an unpaved road. It was the purppse of the corporation to subdivide the property and sell it by lots but in order to make it attractive to prospective buyers, it was necessary to pave a certain -street' and lay water mains. The town was reluctant to make the…
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