Porter v. City of Key West

This suit in equity was brought to en-' force a lien for municipal taxes. An appeal was taken from an order refusing to open a decree pro eonfesso, the chancellor stating in the order that the plea filed herein was not accompanied by an affidavit that the plea “is not interposed for delay” or by “a certificate of counsel that in his opinion it is well founded in point of law” as required by Equity Rule 48, that the defendants are -guilty of laches and that the defense sought to be set up by the answer, filed in support of the plea, is not a meritorious defense.

In the application for a.…