City of Tampa v. Hickey

SCHEB, Acting Chief Judge.

Appellant City of Tampa challenges the issuance of a permanent injunction preventing it from constructing certain improvements on a portion of its Davis Islands property, part of which is presently used as public tennis courts. We reverse.

On December 18, 1924, the developer of Davis Islands, D.P. Davis, conveyed to the city a parcel of land described as:

Marjorie Park according to map or plat of Davis Islands as recorded in Plat Book 10, Page 52, and Plat Book 10, Page 54, Public Records of Hillsborough County, Florida.

Neither Plat Book 10, page 52, nor page 54, which…