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· 7/30/1919

Cary v. Ellis

Citations

  • 78 Fla. 186
  • 82 So. 781

Syllabus

<p>1. If a municipal ordinance directly affecting the rights of individuals is arbitrary and unreasonable it is invalid and will n'ot be enforced.</p> <p>2. A municipal ordinance requiring a sanitary privy to be constructed iand maintained in every house and building in the city in which people live, or where they congregate or assemble, or any kind of business is carried on, is unreasonable and arbitrary, and consequently is invalid, and will not be enforced.</p>

Judges: Browne, Ellis, Taylor, West, Whitfield

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