State Ex Rel. Babson v. City of Sebring

Formerly the respondent municipality was established as the Town of Sebring. Under Chapter 14371 it is now designated City of Sebring.

The relator seeks by mandamus to require the payment of $500.00 from the municipal utility light and water funds of the city, upon the bonds of the municipality held by realtor, the defense in effect being that under the statutes authorizing the bonds to be issued and under the statutes of the State as' they now exist, the bonds are to be paid only from the proceeds of tax levies in the absence of other controlling provisions of law.

There is in the record no…