FIRST UNION NAT. BANK OF FLA. v. Ford

How courts have described this case

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• stating in dictum that a port authority created by special act was not a political subdivision of state
• lessee named equitable owner of leased property because title would pass automatically to lessee upon full payment of debt
• lessee equitable owner when title held only as security for debt and would automatically pass to lessee upon full payment
• counties, as parts of state, are immune from state, municipal, or other special districts' attempts at taxation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).