Fleming v. Hillsborough County

This is an appeal from an order dismissing the complaint in a suit for declaratory decree. J. T. Fleming, individually and as trustee of the J. T. Fleming Foundation and of the J. T. Fleming Trust No. 2, sued Hillsborough County to have the status of such trusts and the propriety of certain tax assessments determined. On defendant’s motion, the chancellor dismissed the complaint as amended.

The complaint alleged that the plaintiff and his wife owned certain lands in Hills-borough County, Florida, by the entireties and that in December 1948, they deeded this land to plaintiff, as trustee for…