Case Name: THOMAS E. SWANSON v. CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE, a Municipal Corporation
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1945-03-13
Citations: 155 Fla. 720
Docket Number: 
Parties: THOMAS E. SWANSON v. CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE, a Municipal Corporation.
Judges: CHAPMAN, C. J., BUFORD and ADAMS, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 155
Pages: 720–721

Head Matter:
THOMAS E. SWANSON v. CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE, a Municipal Corporation.
21 So. (2nd) 217
January Term, 1945
March 13, 1945
Division A
Rehearing denied March 23, 1945
Thomas E. Swanson, for appellant.
T. 0. Berryhill, for appellee.

Opinion:
TERRELL, J.:
The City of Fort Lauderdale by its licence inspector extracted from appellant, under protest, $27.50 for a license to practice law. Appellant sued the inspector and the City jointly and severally for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. A demurrer to the declaration was overruled as to the inspector but was sustained as to the City on authority of Kennedy v. City of Daytona Beach, 132 Fla. 675, 182 So. 228. A final..judgment was entered and this appeal was prosecuted.
In the matter of damages for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution, the judgment of the trial court was correct but if the allegations of. the declaration can be proven, there is no theory whatever under which the license fee was due or could have been legally collected. . In affirming the judgment.on the trial court, we are not to be understood as holding that an appropriate action against the City in the proper forum would not be proper to recover the fee with costs.
Affirmed.
CHAPMAN, C. J., BUFORD and ADAMS, JJ., concur.