Treat v. State Ex Rel. Dann

The City of Winter Park, a municipality incorporated under Chapter 11325, Acts 1925, issued certain bonds upon which relator below brought this proceeding in mandamus looking toward coercing their payment by a special tax levy, as provided for by the statutes under which such bonds had been issued and sold. See Chapter 9298, Acts 1923, and Chapter 11855, Acts 1925, Laws of Florida. The Circuit Court awarded relator a peremptory writ of mandamus and the respondents, as municipal officers of the City of Winter Park, have prosecuted this writ of error to that judgment.

That it was the city’s duty…