City of New Smyrna Beach v. State

In voting to deny the petition for rehearing in Easterlin v. City of New Port Richey, Fla., 105 So.2d 361, 363, I endeavored to make it quite clear that I concurred in the majority opinion prepared for the Court by Mr. Justice Thomas because of my conclusion that the charter of the City of New Port Richey, as I construed its pertinent provisions, prohibited the City from issuing bonds for the construction of a municipal lighting or water plant without an affirmative vote of its registered freeholders at an election held for that purpose, and I expressed the fixed view, basing my conclusion on…