City of Ocoee v. Bell

ALLEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a final decree in a suit for injunction and other relief. Sim H. Bell and a large number of other citizens of Orange County, Florida, brought suit against the Florida Power Corporation and the City of Ocoee to enjoin the collection of a utility tax imposed by defendant city, on the ground that plaintiffs’ properties had been excluded from the corporate limits of defendant city by judicial decrees.

The chancellor entered a decree favorable to the plaintiffs, and the defendant city appealed to this court.

The appellees, plaintiffs below, lived on properties…