City of Fort Myers v. State

In January, 1937, the City of Fort Myers filed its petition in the Circuit Court to validate refunding bonds in the sum of $3,008,000.00, payable in thirty years, redeemable at any interest payment date at par with accrued interest. Said refunding bonds were to be substituted for bonds outstanding in the sum of $2,730,862.31, and to fund judgments aggregating $279,728.82, predicated on outstanding bonds.

Notice and order to show cause why the refunding bonds should not be validated was' given. The State of Florida filed its answer resisting their validation because of insufficiencies in the…