City of Winter Haven v. State Ex Rel. Landis
Supreme Court of Florida
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
— We are dealing here with a judgment of ouster in a quo warranto proceeding brought against the City of Winter Haven as a municipal corporation in the name of the State on the relation of the Attorney General, no co-relators being joined. The effect of the judgment was to reduce the area of the City from about four and a quarter square miles to one square mile.- The judgment was based mainly upon two alleged defects in the description of the* city’s boundaries as set forth in Chapter 11299 of the Acts of 1925, known as the “charter act” of the thereby newly incorporated City of Winter Haven,…
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- City of Miami v. Florida East Coast Railway Co.Supreme Court of Florida · 1920
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