Cotten v. County Commissioners
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from Leon Circuit Court sitting in Chancery. Appellants filed their bill for an injunction to restrain the County Commissioners of Leon County from levying and collecting a tax imposed by them to meet an instalment of stock subscribed by the County in the Pensacola and Georgia Bailroad Company. On presenting the bill, an injunction was granted, which however, was dissolved on the coming in of the answer, and the bill was dismised.
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Appeal from Leon Circuit Court sitting in Chancery. Appellants filed their bill for an injunction to restrain the County Commissioners of Leon County from levying and collecting a tax imposed by them to meet an instalment of stock subscribed by the County in the Pensacola and Georgia Bailroad Company. On presenting the bill, an injunction was granted, which however, was dissolved on the coming in of the answer, and the bill was dismised. The question presented by the pleadings for the decision of the Court, is, whether the General Assembly has the constitutional power to confer upon counties…
1Opinion of the Court
DUPONT J.,
delivered, the opinion of the Court.
It would prove but a useless waste of words—an unprofitable expenditure of time—to engage in any labored effort to impress the importance of the question presented by this case for the adjudication of the court.
The bare announcement that it- involves the construction and interpretation to be given to certain clauses of the Constitution of the State—the fundamental law of the land—the embodiment of the delegated sovereignty of the people—is a sufficient guarantee that it has received at the hands of the court that calm, thorough and anxious…
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