Legal Opinion
City of Winter Haven v. Gillespie
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 10, 1936No. 7999PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
Appellees are the holders of city of Winter Haven bonds. Appellants are the city of Winter Haven, appealing from a judgment taken pro confesso, and property taxpayers who, after the bill had been taken as confessed against the city, were allowed to intervene, not as defend*286ants, but as “friends of the court” to make “suggestions.”
The bill alleged the existence of Winter Haven in 1925 as a municipality embracing 1,430 acres of land, it having a total assessed valuation of approximately $16,-000,000 and outstanding bonded indebtedness of approximately $339,000. That the…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Payne v. First Nat. Bank of ColumbusTexas Commission of Appeals · 1927
- State Ex Rel. Fidelity Life Ass'n v. City of Cedar KeysSupreme Court of Florida · 1936
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