Worth v. City of West Palm Beach

The appellant filed his bill of complaint in the circuit court of Palm Beach County to foreclose a vendor's lien alleged to have accrued in his favor as to certain lands appropriated by the City of West Palm Beach for a public thoroughfare.

The lands of the appellant were appropriated by the City without the formality of condemnation proceedings, or any other legal proceedings so far as the record shows, being had to acquire the same.

The decree was in favor of the complainant in the court below, the appellant here, but the appellant objected to the decree because the amount decreed to be due…