Amos v. Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.

Citations

• 76 Fla. 465
• 80 So. 293

Syllabus

<p>1. When an appeal is taken from an interlocutory order or a decree overruling a demurrer to the Bill of Complaint, and not from a final decree, assignments of errors relating to other interlocutory decrees will not be considered.</p> <p>2. Where the demurrer to a Bill of Complaint is addressed to the entire Bill of Complaint questioning the equities of the bill as a whole, it is a general demurrer, and, if, from the allegations properly pleaded, there is equity in the bill, it should stand.</p> <p>3. Section 54, Chapter 6421, Laws of Florida, Acts of 1913, is not according to its wording, application and effect, a burden upon interstate business, when applied to persons, firms or corporations engaged in both intrastate and interstate business.</p> <p>4. In computing the amount of license fee or occupational tax to be paid by the owner of a telegraph system, under the provisions of Section 54, Chapter 6421, Laws of Florida, Acts of 1913, the Comptroller should not include line mileage used by such owner solely for the transmission of interstate messages.</p>