BLOOMFIELD v. CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG BEACH


82 So.2d 364 (1955)

Lawrence BLOOMFIELD, Willard Johnson, Harry G. Rodefeld, Albert W. Furen and Sheldon A. Lindsey, Appellants, v. CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG BEACH, Florida, a municipal corporation, Earl W. Compton, Carlisle T. Manly, Virginia R. Neel, Mayrie G. Woolf, Walter Sweeney, Rex Padgett, Ben F. Overton, Harold Soehl, and William Meinberg, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

September 16, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheldon A. Lindsey and R.M. Cargell, St. Petersburg Beach, for appellants.

Carroll R. Runyon, St. Petersburg, Ben F. Overton, St. Petersburg Beach, and S.E. Simmons, St. Petersburg, for appellees.


THORNAL, Justice.

The appellees above named were plaintiffs in a declaratory judgment proceeding in the trial court. From a decree adverse to their liking the appellants, who were among the defendants below, have appealed.

The dispute grows out of a contest for political control of the government of the City of St. Petersburg Beach. By an amended complaint the appellees, Compton, Manly and Neel, contended that they, plus the appellants, Bloomfield and Johnson...

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