Givens v. County of Hillsborough
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by the court En Banc. Appeal from Circuit Court for Hillsborough county. Statement. The county commissioners of Hillsborough county on the fourteenth day of August, 1901, passed a resolution for the issuance of county bonds to the amount of $400,000 for building hard surface highways and funding the outstanding indebtedness of the county.
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This case was decided by the court En Banc. Appeal from Circuit Court for Hillsborough county. Statement. The county commissioners of Hillsborough county on the fourteenth day of August, 1901, passed a resolution for the issuance of county bonds to the amount of $400,000 for building hard surface highways and funding the outstanding indebtedness of the county. An election was held which resulted in a ratification of this resolution by the legal voters of the count}', and the bonds were prepared and advertised for sale and a bid therefor accepted by the county officials. In February, 1903,…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxwelu, J.
(after stating the facts'). — This cause was argued before Division B, but as it involved a constitutional question, it was referred to the court in banc for decision.
In disposing of this case we shall confine ourselves to a consideration of those objections to the proposed issue of bonds which are insisted upon by the appellant in his argument, treating all other as abandoned.
I. The first objection urged to the power of the county to issue the bonds in question is “because the legislature of the State of Florida has no constitutional power to pass an act validating bonds that have already…
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