EMPIRE SECURITIES CORPORATION AND ISAAC T. COOK, APPELLANTS,
v.
W. H. PONTIOUS, APPELLEE
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The Florida Supreme Court reversed a lower court's decree, directing the dismissal of the bill of complaint in a case similar to a previously decided companion case.
Yes, the decree of the court below is reversed with directions to dismiss the bill of complaint.
“This is a companion case, and similar in every respect to the case of Isaac T. Cook and George E. Ricker v. W. H. Pontious, decided at this term, wherein the decree of the court below was reversed with directions.”
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Campbell, Circuit Judge:
This is a companion case, and similar in every respect to the case of Isaac T. Cook and George E. Ricker v. W. H. Pontious, decided at this term, wherein the decree of the court below was reversed with directions. See 98 Fla. 373, 122 So. R. 765.
Under the opinion above mentioned, the decree of the court below in this ease will be reversed, with directions for the chancellor to dismiss the bill of complaint, without prejudice to the rights of the complainant to file another bill of complaint, should the respondents named as owners of the former record title to the property described in the present bill of complaint, or those claiming under them, ever assert claims or interests under such former record title derogatory to the title of complainants under the drainage tax deed.
Reversed with directions.
Whitfield, Ellis, Strum, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur. Terrell, C. J., disqualified.
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Tangeman v. Sjoblom, 100 Fla. 1059 (Fla. 1930)…s against the former record title on the theory that the former record title constitutes a cloud on the tax title. Stuart v. Stephanus, 94 Fla. 1087, 114 So. R. 767; Cook v. Pontious, 98 Fla. 373, 123 So. R. 765; Empire Securities Corp. v. Pontious, 98 Fla. 380. 123 So. R. 767; Jordan v. Baugher, 98 Fla. 438, 124 So. R. 32. It is claimed by appellee that in the light of the decision in Jordan v. Baugher, supra, there was equity introduced into the bill by the pleadings of the defendant Anna L. Tangeman/an…
Authorities Cited
- Cook v. Pontious, 98 Fla. 373 (Fla. 1929)