State ex rel. Lewis v. Bradshaw

Citations

• 35 Fla. 313

Syllabus

<p>'The tax act of 1891 (Chapter 4011) went into effect August 4th, 1891, sixty days after the final adjournment of the Legislature of that year, and Sections 7 and 8 of said act can not avail a clerk of the Circuit Court as a defense in mandamus proceedings to compel him to execute a tax deed on tax certificates of sales properly issued on the second day of September, 1889, for nonpayment of taxes for the year 1888, and which deed was demanded on the 18th day of July, 1891. The right to the deed accrued before the act went into effect; and this would be the result independent of the conclusion x’eached in Hull vs. State ex rel, 29 Fla. 79, 11 South. Rep. 97, as to the effect of the sections of the act referred to on such tax sales.</p>