Legal Opinion

City of Winter Haven v. State Ex Rel. Landis

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided October 10, 1936PublishedCited by 26 opinions

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,…

2Cases cited28 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Nuveen v. GreerSupreme Court of Florida · 1924
  2. People v. MaynardMichigan Supreme Court · 1867
  3. Attorney General v. City of MethuenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1921
  4. Town of Enterprise v. State ex rel. Attorney-GeneralSupreme Court of Florida · 1892
  5. City of Miami v. Florida East Coast Railway Co.Supreme Court of Florida · 1920

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. County of Brevard v. Miorelli EngineeringSupreme Court of Florida · 1997
  2. Daniell v. SherrillSupreme Court of Florida · 1950
  3. People Ex Rel. Adamowski v. WilsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1960
  4. Jordan v. Knox CountyTennessee Supreme Court · 2007
  5. Voorhees v. City of MiamiSupreme Court of Florida · 1940

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