Opinion

Rountree v. State Ex Rel. Georgia Bond & Mortgage Co.

  • 102 Fla. 259
  • 135 So. 894
Court
Supreme Court of Florida
Filed
Jun 29, 1931
Status
Published
Author
Davis
On the bench
Davis, Whitfield, Terrell, Buford, Ellis, Brown
Cited by
1 cases
Authority
More cited than 60.0%

The opinion

Davis, J.

— The questions involved in this case are identical with those involved in a similar case between the same parties under the same title decided at the present term, with the exception that the bonds here involved were issued under Chapter 11035, Acts of 1925, Laws of Florida, and are sanitary sewer bonds of the City of Punta Gorda.

Whether the bonds were authorized by the Act in question or not, becomes immaterial when it appears, as in

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this case, that the bonds here involved were issued under the apparent authority of a legislative act under which the legislature could have authorized the bonds within its constitutional power, and it further appears that the bonds were actually issued and validated pursuant to Sections 5106-5112, C. G. L., 3296-3302, R. G. S.

The decree of validation puts at rest any question as to the grant of legislative power to the City of Punta Gorda to issue such bonds. Weinberger v. Board of Public Instruction St. Johns County, 93 Fla. 474 , 112 So. 253 . The bonds in question being sanitary sewer bonds have not been shown to be'beyond the terms of said Chapter 11035, even if that question were open to be decided now.

On the authority of Rountree, et al. v. State ex rel. Georgia Bond & Mortgage Co., 102 Fla.....; 135 So. 888 , decided at this term, the judgment is affirmed on the other points raised.

Affirmed.

Whitfield, P.J., and Terrell, J., concur.

Buford, C.J., and Ellis and Brown, J.J., concur in the opinion and judgment.

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