Case Name: ROBERTS et ux. v. CALVERT LAND CO.
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1936-09-21
Citations: 169 So. 749
Docket Number: 
Parties: ROBERTS et ux. v. CALVERT LAND CO.
Judges: ELLIS, P. J., and TERRELL and BUFORD, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter
Volume: 169
Pages: 749–750

Head Matter:
ROBERTS et ux. v. CALVERT LAND CO.
Supreme Court of Florida, Division B.
Sept. 21, 1936.
W. W. Whitehurst, of Wa.u'chula, for appellants.
C. V. McClurg and E. C. McClurg, both of Lakeland, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The appeal before us brings for review final decree of foreclosure of tax lien under the provisions of chapter 14572, Acts 1929 (Ex.Sess.).
The record sho-ws that the lands involved were not returned for taxation by the owner; that the owner deliberately stopped paying taxes on the said land because he considered the assessment too high, although he had for several years prior, without making any record of complaint, paid the taxes based on the identical valuation and took no steps to force a reduction in valuation.
The defense was that the tax certificate was invalid because of excessive valuation of the lands for tax assessment.
The decree should be affirmed on authority of Ridgeway v. Reese, 100 Fla. 1304, 131 So. 136; Tax Securities Corp. v. Borland, 103 Fla. 63, 137 So. 151; and Tax Securities Corp. v. Manatee Co., 115 Fla. 655, 155 So. 742.
It is so ordered.
Affirmed.
ELLIS, P. J., and TERRELL and BUFORD, JJ., concur.
WHITFIELD, C. J., and BROWN and DAVIS, JJ., concur _ in the opinion and judgment.