Townsend Burns Ridgeway v. Peacock

Townsend Burns Ridgeway brought a bill of complaint against J. R. Peacock, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Horace G. Reese, Jr., and Ernest Amos, Comptroller, in which it is in effect alleged that Ridgeway is the owner of described lands in Sarasota County, Florida, that at a sale of tax certificates by the Clerk of the Circuit Court, J. R. Peacock, to the highest bidder under Chapter 14572, Acts of 1929, Horace G. Reese, Jr., was the highest bidder for two tax sale certificates covering said lands, issued in 1927 for the unpaid taxes of 1926; that the amount of such highest bids for said…