Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. City of Winter Haven

Davis, C. J. —

These three appeals by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company present the question whether or not, under the circumstances set up in an affirmative answer interposed to bills of complaint brought to foreclose certain unpaid street .paving assessment liens imposed by the City of Winter Haven, the railroad company is entitled to judicially resist the foreclosure of the liens, insofar as they are sought to be enforced under an application of the so-called “front foot” rule as a measure of determining the benefits to the burdened railroad property, occasioned by the street paving…