Legal Opinion
Sparks v. Ewing
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided May 1, 1935PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, C. J.
This appeal is from a decree enjoining taxation for payment of municipal bonds which are alleged to be invalid. The facts are fully stated in the opinion prepared by Mr. Presiding Justice Ellis.
The question presented is not the validity of, but a construction of, the statute under which municipal bonds were issued after they had been validated by a judicial decree that is res adjudicata. This is not a direct proceeding to test the validity of the bonds before their issue, but it is in the nature of a collateral attack upon the validity of the bonds after they have been judicially decreed to…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Cromwell v. County of SacSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Southern Pacific Railroad v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Weinberger v. Board of Public InstructionSupreme Court of Florida · 1927
- Grenada County Supervisors v. BrogdenSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- State Ex Rel. Nuveen v. GreerSupreme Court of Florida · 1924
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3Cited by14 opinions
- State v. Board of Public InstructionSupreme Court of Florida · 1936
- City of Winter Haven v. GillespieCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1936
- Board of Public Instruction for Polk County v. GillespieCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1936
- City of Hialeah v. State Ex Rel. Ben Hur Life Ass'nSupreme Court of Florida · 1937
- State v. City of VeniceSupreme Court of Florida · 1941
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