Case ID: so_169/html/0646-01.html
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Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM. ELLIS, P. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

AIRTH v. CITY OF LIVE OAK et al.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    Aug. 3, 1936.
    A. C. Johnson, of Live Oak, for appellant.
    Alfred T. Airth, of Live Oak, for appel-lees.
   PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a bill of complaint seeking to enjoin the issue of $37,000 of water revenue certificates by the city of Live Oak, Fla., without an approving vote of the freeholder electors of the city, as required by section 6, article 9 of the Constitution of Florida, as amended in 1930; the purpose of the issue being for improvements to the existing waterworks system of, the city of Live Oak.

The water revenue certificates are to be paid solely from the revenue derived from the operation of the said waterworks system, and not otherwise.

The decree dismissing the bill of complaint should be affirmed upon the authority of State ex rel. v. City of Miami, 113 Fla. 280, 52 So. 6; State v. City of Daytona Beach, 118 Fla. 29, 158 So. 300; Boykin v. Town of River Junction (Fla.) 169 So. 492; State ex rel. City of Vero Beach v. MacConnell (Fla.) 169 So. 628; Williams v. Town of Dunnellon (Fla.) 169 So. 631; Bradley v. City of Homestead (Fla.) 169 So. 639; and other like cases filed at this term.

Affirmed.

WHITFIELD, C. J., and TERRELL, BROWN, BUFORD, and DAVIS, JJ., concur.

ELLIS, P. J.,

concurs upon the principle announced in his specially concurring opinion in the case of State ex rel. City of Vero Beach v. MacConnell (Fla.) 169 So. 628, this day filed.