Astca Investment Co. v. County of Lake

Citations

• 86 Fla. 639
• 98 So. 824

Syllabus

<p>Where an appeal is duly taken from an order denying a temporary restraining order to prevent the destruction of bearing citrus trees for the purpose of constructing a public highway and it is duly made to appear to the Supreme Court that the growing citrus trees are of such a nature and peculiar value that in order to preserve the essential nature, value and usefulness of the land, until the merits of the appeal can be adjudicated, the trees should not be destroyed or removed, this court by virtue of the .power conferred by Section 5 of Article Y of the State Constitution to issue “all writs necessary or proper to the complete exercise of its jurisdiction,” may grant an appropriate restraining order to preserve the corpus of the property pending the determination of the appeal.</p>