GEORGE J. DYKES, CLERK CIRCUIT COURT, LAKE COUNTY,
v.
STATE EX REL. V. K. BUCK
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The Florida Supreme Court reversed a lower court's decision regarding the interpretation of a redemption period in a statute, holding that the period expired in two years, not four.
The redemption period provided in Section 9 of Chapter 18296, Acts of 1937, expires in two years from the date of the Act's passage.
“the only question brought up for our consideration is the interpretation of Section 9 of Chapter 18296, Acts of 1937, the point of controversy being whether the redemption period provided therein expires in two or four years.”
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This writ of error is from an order of the Circuit Court of Lake County overruling a motion to quash and ordering that a peremptory writ be issued in the ■ cause.- ;The' record and the- briefs have been examined and *189the only question brought up for our consideration is the interpretation of Section 9 of Chapter 18296, Acts of 1937, the point of controversy being whether the redemption period provided therein expires in two or four years.
This identical question was before the Court in State ex rel. F. T. Hurner v. Myrtle M. Culbreath, et al., decided this date, where we held that the redemption period expired in two years from the date of the passage of the Act. The court below held that it expired in four years. His judgment is accordingly reversed on authority of the last cited case.
Reversed.
Whitfield, P. J., and Brown, Buford, Ci-iapman and Thomas, J. J., concur.
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Ivey v. State of Fla. ex rel. J. Tom Watson, 147 Fla. 635 (Fla. 1941)…dignity to the lien of the tax certificate under which the State claims title to said land. The order overruling and denying each of the said motions is here for review on petition for writ of certiorari. In the case of Dykes v. State ex rel. Buck, 140 Fla. 188, 191 So. 309, we held that the time for redemption under Section 9 of Chapter 18296 expired in two years after the passage of the Act. See State ex rel. Hurner v. Culbreath, 140 Fla. 634, 192 So. 814. Chapter 18296 became a law on June 9, 1937, and…