State ex rel. Bower v. City of Tampa

This is an appeal from a final judgment of the Circuit Court entered adversely to appellant-plaintiffs in a Quo Warranto proceeding, seeking an ouster of the City of Tampa from lands owned by Appellants and also a declaration that Chapter 29548, Laws of Florida, Special Act 1953, extending the corporate limits of the City of Tampa to include lands owned by Appellants, is unconstitutional.

Appellants own certain unimproved, un-habitated tidal shores lying mostly under water between the fringe boundaries of the City of Tampa and the bulkhead line of upper old Tampa Bay. This property is…