Dickson v. Gamble
Citations
- 16 Fla. 687
Syllabus
<p>1. A note whereby the maker promise* to pay a sum of money “ for value received on account of taxes on the property of the estate of L. and others for the year 1872,” does not give a right of action to the payee, as the law does not recognize this mode of collecting taxes, and there is no allegation in the declaration that payee had paid .the taxes for or at the request of the maker.</p> <p>8. A tax-collector cannot enforce a note given him for taxes which it is his duty to collect, particularly as it is not alleged that he paid or discharged the taxes mentioned at the request of the maker.</p> <p>8. Whether the publication of the list of lands advertised to be sold for unpaid taxes by a collector creates the relation of debtor aBd creditor as between the collector and the publisher, qucre ?</p>
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- appellate courts do not interfere “with either the allocation of risks or the rights and obligations validly agreed to by the parties on the basis of a regrettable result”
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