Suits v. Hillsborough County

TERRELL, J.:

In November, 1940, Hillsborough County filed its bill of complaint against appellants as defendants to foreclose Tax Sale Certificates Numbers 7446 and 7447, describing certain lands in said county. A motion to dismiss on the ground that the certificates were the property of the State and that the county had no authority to file the suit was denied. The latter judgment was affirmed by this Court in Suits, et al., v. Hillsborough County, 147 Fla. 53, 2 So. (2nd) 353.

On the going down of the mandate, the State of Florida filed its answer alleging that it had a lien for the unpaid…