Fountain v. State Ex Rel. McCaskill Investment Co.

The facts as we glean them from the petition in mandamus and the exhibits thereto are: On September 10th, 1925, relator was advised by the plaintiff in error, M. T. Fountain, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Walton County, Florida, in a letter, that the amount "it would have cost" to redeem property involved in the suit (described as Lots one to sixty-four inclusive, Section Twenty-six, Township Two South, Range Twenty-one West) on or before June 30th, 1925, was $413.81 which covered unpaid taxes for the year 1921 and omitted taxes for the subsequent years to and including the year 1925.

In this…