Webb v. Scott

(dissenting in part).—This court held Chapter 10145 unconstitutional, but on rehearing the court was equally divided as to the constitutionality of the validating Act, Chapter 12,208. The writer thought both Acts were unconstitutional and absolutely void, for the reasons set forth in his opinion in Smith Bros. v. Williams, 100. Fla. 642, 651, 126 So. 367. The validating Act was void because the Legislature could not have imposed such arbitrary assessments by direct legislative act in the first instance for the reasons set forth in Parrish v. Hillsborough County, 98 Fla. 430, 123 So. 830, and…