Hyland v. Rodney

The record in this case shows that Mrs. Minnie F. Hyland, plaintiff below and appellant here, was a widow and the head of a family and owned Lot 3 of Block 51, Mason and Coleman's Addition to Daytona, Florida. On said land was a small hotel known in the Daytona Beach community as the "Hyland House," and the sole source of her livelihood was obtained from the operation of this small hotel.

She was unable to pay the taxes assessed against her home and hotel by the City of Daytona Beach prior to the year 1934, and on the 5th day of February, 1934, the City of Daytona Beach for the sum of $358.21…