State, Ex Rel. v. Lang, (1938)
Court: Supreme Court of Florida
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Visitors: 6
Judges: TERRELL, J.
Attorneys: Julius F. Parker and B.K. Roberts, for Relator;
William Blount Myers, for Respondent.
Filed: Feb. 25, 1938
Latest Update: Mar. 02, 2020
Summary: Pursuant to Chapter 18296, Acts of 1937, the Respondent advertised and accepted bids from Relator for certain tax certificates describing lands that had more than two years before been sold to the State for the non payment of State and County taxes. He refused after sale to cancel and deliver said certificates to Relator on the ground that the value of the lands described in them was far in excess of the face of the certificates including the taxes for the succeeding year and because there was r
Summary: Pursuant to Chapter 18296, Acts of 1937, the Respondent advertised and accepted bids from Relator for certain tax certificates describing lands that had more than two years before been sold to the State for the non payment of State and County taxes. He refused after sale to cancel and deliver said certificates to Relator on the ground that the value of the lands described in them was far in excess of the face of the certificates including the taxes for the succeeding year and because there was re..
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I think we need go no further in this case than to cite as authority the case of State, ex rel. Ship Canal Authority, v. Lancaster, as Clerk, etc., 125 Fla. 464, 170 So. 126, cited in the foregoing opinion, wherein we held that the Clerk of the Circuit Court is without such interest in the subject matter involved as would enable him to set up the unconstitutionality of the statute as a ground for refusing to carry out the ministerial duties imposed upon him thereby.
WHITFIELD, J. concurs.
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