Collins ex rel. Jackson County v. Jackson County

STURGIS, Chief Judge.

The appellant, plaintiff below, in his own right and on behalf of other taxpayers of Jackson County, Florida, brought this suit in equity to enjoin the county, acting through its county commission, from using county equipment, materials and convicts in the construction of roads and streets on certain property which was alleged to he privately owned, unimproved, uninhabited, and in the course of development as a subdivision. A temporary injunction restrained the county from further use of public funds, county equipment, materials .and convicts in the construction of roads…