State ex rel. Stieff v. Bradshaw

Citations

• 39 Fla. 137

Syllabus

<p>1. Mandamus lies against clerks of the Circuit Courts to enforce the execution of tax deeds upon tax certificates presented after the period of redemption has expired; the holders thereof having complied with all conditions entitling them to such deeds.</p> <p>'2. The tax collector of the city of Orlando had power to sell lands for non-payment of taxes duly assessed thereon by said city for the year 1889, and to issue certificates to the purchasers at such sale; and an assignee of such certificates can by mandamus compel the clerk of the Circuit Court of Orange county to issue a tax deed upon such certificates after the period of redemption has expired and the applicant has complied with all conditions entitling him to such deed.</p> <p>3. Sections 7 and 8 of chapter 4011, acts of 1891, are invalid as impairing the obligation of the contract when applied to tax certificates originally issued to. a governmental agency, but which at the time said act took effect had been for a valuable consideration legally assigned to, and which were then owned', by a private individual.</p>