Smith v. City of Winter Haven

TERRELL, J.:

This appeal is from a decree dismissing the complainants second amended bill of complaint against the City of Winter Haven seeking to vacate certain tax levies and to enjoin the city from levying and collecting taxes on the lands described for servicing outstanding municipal bonds.

The amended bill of complaint alleges that said lands (over 6000 acres, composing a negro settlement) were included within the City by Chapter 11301, Acts of 1925, that they are located more than a mile from the City limits and more than two miles from the business part of the City, that said lands and…