[Download] "Trustees Internal Improvement Fund State Florida v. E. N. Claughton Et Al." by En Banc. Supreme Court of Florida ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Trustees Internal Improvement Fund State Florida v. E. N. Claughton Et Al.
- Author : En Banc. Supreme Court of Florida
- Release Date : January 28, 1956
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 87 KB
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On June 20, 1916, the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida sold a small island in Dade County and some of the submerged lands surrounding it to Ray G. Burlingame and his wife, Margaret R. Burlingame. On said date the deed conveying the same was prepared, drawn and executed by said Trustees. This property lay easterly from certain uplands owned at that time by Mary Brickell. Insisting that the title to the island and submerged lands was vested in her by virtue of her ownership of uplands along the shore of the mainland, Mary Brickell instituted a suit to enjoin the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund from delivering said deed to the Burlingames. In this litigation Mary Brickell attacked the validity of Chapter 6451, Acts of 1913 (now Sections 253.06-253.11, Florida Statutes 1951, F.S.A.), which vested in said Trustees title to certain islands, sand bars and banks located in the tidal waters of Dade and Palm Beach Counties under which Act the Trustees claimed the title to said lands and the right to sell the same to the Burlingames. The contentions of Mary Brickell were finally determined adversely to her by this Court in Brickell v. Trammell, 77 Fla. 544, 82 So. 221, on May 5, 1919. On July 7, 1919, the Trustees delivered the deed to the Burlingames, said deed reciting on its face that it had been prepared, drawn and executed June 20, 1916. The property conveyed was described in the deed as follows: