Treadwell v. Town of Oak Hill

DREW, Chief Justice.

Here for review by appeal is a decision of the District Court of Appeal, First District, in Smith v. Treadwell, 161 So.2d 49, which initially construed a controlling provision of the Florida Constitution. For this reason we have jurisdiction.

Appellees Treadwell and others instituted in chancery a class suit on behalf of the citizens, electors and freeholders of the Town of Oak Hill seeking reactivation of the town government. From a summary final decree in favor of the plaintiffs’ appeal was taken by E. A. Smith whom the chancellor had permitted to intervene on behalf of…