State ex rel. Pope v. Shields

STURGIS, Judge.

The appellant, a resident and taxpayer in an area proposed to be incorporated as the Town of St. Marks, Florida, pursuant to Chapter 61-2764, Laws of Florida, Acts of 1961, petitioned the Circuit Court of Wakul-la County for a writ of quo warranto, challenging the validity of a referendum election called under the Act and the authority of the appellees to exercise power as municipal officials who undertook to act as such on the assumption that the Town had been incorporated according to law. A rule nisi issued to the respondent-appellees who by their return generally denied the…