Heyward v. Hall

Appellees, plaintiffs below, brought this suit in equity seeking an injunction to prevent the taxation and sale and conveyance of plaintiffs’ lands for nonpayment of municipal taxes imposed upon the lands in the Town of North Miami. The grounds alleged are in effect that there is no such municipality in legal existence, de jure or de facto, because the general statute under which the alleged incorporation was attempted, Sections 2935 (1825), et seq., C. G. L., is unconstitutional and void, and because the proceedings attempting to incorporate the non-contiguous tracts of land entirely…