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- Title: Lykes Bros. v. Board Commrs Everglades Drainage Dist. Et Al.
- Author : En Banc. Supreme Court of Florida
- Release Date : January 22, 1949
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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The appellants, who are landowners and taxpayers in the Everglades Drainage District and who own bonds issued by the District, brought a suit in equity to enjoin the District from dedicating certain of its lands to water conservation purposes pursuant to chapters 24417, 24465, and 24788, Special Laws, 1947. The appellants alleged in their bill that they had never received any benefits from the District and from the works and improvements which had been made by the District and that their lands were not susceptible to the benefits which it was thought might accrue from the conservation areas to be created pursuant to the aforesaid local laws; that the action of the District in dedicating its lands to water conservation purposes pursuant to said local laws would, to the extent of the lands dedicated, take from the debt service fund of the District created by law for the retirement of bonds a potential asset in the way of proceeds which might be realized from the sale of such lands which otherwise would be available for the retirement of outstanding bonds, thereby depleting the debt service fund to such an extent as to require substantial additional ad valorem taxes from the appellants for works or improvements for which they or their lands would receive no benefits. They alleged, further, that chapters 24417, 24465 and 24788, the local laws pursuant to which the District proposed to dedicate its lands to water conservation purposes, are unconstitutional and void for the reason that no notice of intention to apply for the passage thereof was ever published in the manner required by section 21, Article III of the Constitution and that said local laws were never ratified or approved at a referendum election called and held in the territory to be affected as prescribed by section 21, Article III of the Constitution.