Teachy v. City of Wauchula

Supreme Court of Florida
Teachy v. City of Wauchula, 169 So. 640 (Fla. 1936)
125 Fla. 150; 1936 Fla. LEXIS 1242
Ellis, Whitfield, Terrell, Brown, Buford, Davis

Teachy v. City of Wauchula

Opinion of the Court

This appeal is from a decree dismissing a bill of complaint seeking to enjoin the issue by the City of Wauchula, Florida, of $19,000.00 of "Waterworks Revenue Certificates" for the purpose of making additions and improvements to an existing waterworks system of the city, without the approval of the freeholder electors of the city as is required by Section 6, Article IX, of the Constitution of Florida, as amended in 1930. The revenue certificates *Page 151 are to be paid solely from the revenue derived from the operation of the said waterworks system and not otherwise.

The decree should be affirmed on the authority of State, exrel., v. City of Miami, 113 Fla. 280, 152 So. 6; State v. City of Daytona Beach, 118 Fla. 29, 158 So. 300; Boykin v. Town of River Junction, filed July 17, 1936; Williams v. Town of Dunnellon, and Bradley v. City of Homestead, decided at this term.

Affirmed.

WHITFIELD, C.J., TERRELL, BROWN, BUFORD and DAVIS, J.J., concur.

ELLIS, P.J., concurs upon the principle announced in his specially concurring opinion in the case of State, ex rel. City of Vero Beach, v. MacConnell, this day filed.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

— This' appeal is from a decree dismissing a bill of complaint seeking to enjoin the issue by the City of Wauchula, Florida, of $19,000.00 of “Waterworks Revenue Certificates” for the purpose of making additions and improvements to an existing waterworks system of the city, without the approval of the freeholder electors of the city as is' required by Section 6, Article IX, of the Constitution of Florida, as amended in 1930. The revenue certificates *151are to be paid solely from the revenue derived from the operation of the said waterworks system and not otherwise.

The decree should be affirmed on the authority of State, ex rel., v. City of Miami, 113 Fla. 280, 152 So. 6; State v. City of Daytona Beach, 118 Fla. 29, 158 So. 300; Boykin v. Town of River Junction, filed July 17, 1936; Williams v. Town of Dunnellon, and Bradley v. City of Homestead, decided at this term.

Affirmed.

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

Concurring Opinion

Ellis, P. J.,

concurs upon the principle announced in his specially concurring opinion in the case of State, ex rel. City of Vero Beach, v. MacConnell, this day filed.

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