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LIQUOR STORE v. CONTINENTAL DISTILLING CORP.

40 So.2d 371 (1949)

LIQUOR STORE, Inc., et al. v. CONTINENTAL DISTILLING CORPORATION.

Supreme Court of Florida, en Banc.

Rehearing Denied May 27, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Lewis Hall, of Tallahassee, and Whitaker Brothers, of Tampa, for petitioners.

Parker, Foster & Wigginton, of Tallahassee, and Richard L. Fruchterman, of New York City, for respondent.

S. Henry Harris, of St. Petersburg, Reeves, Allen & Johnson, of Tampa, and Ausley, Collins & Truett, of Tallahassee, for intervenor-respondent.

ADAMS, Chief Justice.

If the decision of this case is to rest upon precedents from other jurisdictions then the conclusion is not difficult. We confess they lead to an approval of the act. F.S.A. § 541.01 et seq. Our first duty, however, is to our own constitution as well as the superior federal law. This court has, perhaps more so than many others, been alert to any trespass upon the citizens' constitutional rights. See State v. City of Stuart, 97 Fla. 69, 120...

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