STATE EX REL. GULFSTREAM PARK RACING ASS'N, INC. v. FLORIDA STATE RACING COMMISSION


70 So.2d 375 (1953)

STATE ex rel. GULFSTREAM PARK RACING ASS'N, Inc. v. FLORIDA STATE RACING COMMISSION et al.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

Rehearing Denied December 11, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ward & Ward, Miami, for relator.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., George E. Owen, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Walter E. Dence, Miami, for respondents.

Boardman, Bolles & Kates, Miami, for Hialeah Race Course, Inc.

Baynard & Baynard and Leonard W. Cooperman, St. Petersburg, for University of Miami Alumni Ass'n.

Worley, Gautier & Dawes, Miami, for Gables Racing Ass'n.

Ausley, Collins & Ausley, Tallahassee, L.B. Vocelle, Vero Beach, William T. Fussell, Tampa, Rufus Jefferson, B.A. Meginniss, Leonard Pepper and John K. Folsom, Tallahassee, for Florida State University.

Willard Ayres, Ocala, E. Dixie Beggs, Pensacola, R.J. Bishop, Orlando, Louis S. Bonsteel, Miami, E.A. Clayton, Gainesville, G.H. Bourke Floyd, Apalachicola, Leo L. Foster, Tallahassee, William C. Gaither, Miami, J. Thomas Gurney, Orlando, J. Lewis Hall, Tallahassee, Wallace M. Jopling, Lake City, Gordon B. Knowles, Jr., Bradenton, William K. Love, Lakeland, Raymer F. Maguire, Orlando, Paul H. Marks, Miami, William A. McRae, Jr., Bartow, George L. Pink, Palm Beach, Edward B. Rood, T.M. Shackleford, Jr., Tampa, William P. Shelley, Jr., R.P. Terry, Miami, Hamilton D. Upchurch, St. Augustine, Fuller Warren, Tallahassee, and Olin E. Watts, Jacksonville, for University of Florida.

Leo Foster and J. Lewis Hall, Tallahassee, for Florida A. & M. University, amici curiae.


PER CURIAM.

Contention is made by the Relator that Sections 550.03 and 550.08, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., are violative of Sections 2 and 4 of Article 9 and Section 30 of Article 3 of the Florida Constitution, F.S.A. The CHIEF JUSTICE and Justices TERRELL, THOMAS, SEBRING, MATHEWS and DREW are of the opinion that such a contention is without merit and that Sections 550.03 and 550.08, supra, are immune to such constitutional attack.

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