Opinion

Sholtz v. State Ex Rel. Jones

  • 124 Fla. 164
  • 168 So. 803
Court
Supreme Court of Florida
Filed
Apr 20, 1936
Status
Published
Author
Davis
On the bench
Whitfield, Ellis, Brown, Buford, Davis, Terrell
Cited by
1 cases
Authority
More cited than 37.4%

The opinion

On Rehearing.

Davis, J.

Rehearing was granted in this case to determine, after oral argument and deliberate reconsideration, whether or not this case is at all distinguishable, in principle, from the cases of State,

ex rel.

Andrews, v. Sholtz, 120 Fla. 423 , 162 Sou. Rep. 865 ; State,

ex rel.

Chalmers, v. Sholtz, 121 Fla. 514 , 163 Sou. Rep. 926 ; Sholtz v. State,

ex rel.

Chalmers, 123 Fla. 100 , 166 Sou. Rep. 319 , Sholtz v. State,

ex rel.

Ben Hur Life Association, 122 Fla. 238 , 165 Sou. Rep. 34 , and Sholtz v. State,

ex rel.

Ben Hur Life Association, 122 Fla. 249 , 165 Sou. Rep. 39 , heretofore decided, and, upon the authority of which the judgment in this case was on April 20, 1936, heretofore affirmed without opinion.

The effect of this court’s holding in State,

ex rel.

Andrews, v. Sholtz, supra, is to decide that when gasoline tax moneys have been duly appropriated to an interest and sinking fund account for the payment of past due and currently maturing interest on bonds, as contemplated by Chapter 14486, Acts 1929, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, that thereupon and thereby such gasoline tax moneys, so long as held by the State Board of Administration undisbursed, become to all intents and purposes a commutation of the ad valorem taxes for which such gasoline tax revenues have been substituted under the law in lieu of an ad valorem tax levy made to raise the amount so substituted.

It follows therefore that gasoline tax moneys, when held

*166

in a presently disbursable fund by the State Board of Administration, duly appropriated as a commutation of unlevied ad valorem taxes contemplated to be otherwise collected to make up each fund, as provided for by the State Board of Administration Act (Chapter 14486, Acts 1929,

supra,

become, in contemplation of law, subject to the same liabilities under the “first come, first served” rule as the fund would be if it had been derived entirely from ad valorem tax moneys in the first instance. Hence mandamus to reach and apply the same under the “first come, first served” rule will lie, as in the case now before the Court. State,

ex rel.

Andrews, v. Sholtz, 120 Fla. 423 , 162 Sou. Rep. 865 ,

supra.

Reaffiirmed on rehearing.

Whitfield, C. J., and Ellis, Terrell, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.

This is a copy of a public record, reproduced as it was published. It is not legal advice, and it may not be the version a court would rely on. Check the official source before you cite it.

A word about cookies

We need a few to keep you signed in and the library working. The rest help us see which pages people use and where they get stuck. They stay off unless you say yes.