Bessemer Properties, Inc. v. City of Opalocka

MATHEWS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a final declaratory decree wherein the appellee brought a bill for declaratory decree against Bessemer Properties, Incorporated. The purpose of the suit was to validate certificates of indebtedness in the amount of $70,000 payable from a franchise granted to the Florida Power & Light Company, for the purpose of securing money to acquire real property and to construct a jail, city hall and other facilities which were declared to be for a municipal purpose.

The facts in this case are different from the facts in North Shore Bank v. Town of Surfside, Fla.,…