Bishoff v. State ex rel. Tampa Water Works Co.
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County. Statement. On the first day of October, 1900, the defendant in error filed a petition for an alternative writ of mandamus •against plaintiff in error, and thereupon an alternative writ issued alleging that the Tampa Water Works Company was then and had been for the last two years past engaged in business within the corporate limits of the said city, and that the city of Tampa on the twenty-second day of September,…
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Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County. Statement. On the first day of October, 1900, the defendant in error filed a petition for an alternative writ of mandamus •against plaintiff in error, and thereupon an alternative writ issued alleging that the Tampa Water Works Company was then and had been for the last two years past engaged in business within the corporate limits of the said city, and that the city of Tampa on the twenty-second day of September, 1899, passed an ordinance providing, among other things, that after the first day of October, 1899, every person, firm,…
1Opinion of the CourtMabry, J.
(After stating the facts.)
In this, a mandamus proceeding, the Circuit Court decided on the alternative writ and return thereto, shown by the statement of the case, that it was the duty of plaintiff in error, as tax assessor and collector of the city of Tampa, to issue to defendant in error a license to conduct its business in said city from the first day of October, 1900, to and including the thirtieth day of September, 1901. The duty to issue the license exists, it is claimed, under the ordinance of the city passed in 1899, and numbered 232. Ordinance number 245, approved September 29th,…
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