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Miami Bank & Trust Co. v. Board of Public Instruction
76 Fla. 531
| Fla. | 1918
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Per Curiam.

Appeal from an order sustaining a demurrer to the bill of complaint of Miami Bank & Trust Company against The Board of Public Instruction for Broward County; Fort Lauderdale Special Tax School District Number Three of Broward County; Biscayne Con*532struction Company, and Walter C. D'eGarmo, for an accounting for money advanced and paid out to the construction company On account of a contract for the construction of a school building in Broward county, and for an injunction to restrain the Board of Public Instruction from disbursing for any other purpose the money raised' by the pubic for the purpose of constructng the school bulding and to declare a lien upon the said fund. The demurrer was general. There is equity in the bill. The fund was created for a particular purpose, mm: the construction of the .school building, the certificates of indebtedness issued against it for the construction of the building was the method adopted for paymeht of the work as it progressed; the fund' has not been exhausted nor impaired, although there has been a partial substitution of one fund for another. The Board of Public Instruction for Broward County are trustees of the fund under the allegations of fact .set forth in the bill charged with the disbursement of it for the purpose for which it was raised. The demurrer should have been overruled.

The order is reversed.

Browne, C. J., and Tatlor, Whitfield, Ellis and West, J. J., concur.

Case Details

Case Name: Miami Bank & Trust Co. v. Board of Public Instruction
Court Name: Supreme Court of Florida
Date Published: Dec 13, 1918
Citation: 76 Fla. 531
Court Abbreviation: Fla.
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