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SOUTHERN B.T. & T. CO. v. NINETEEN HUNDRED ONE C. CORP.

83 So.2d 865 (1955)

SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Joe H. Adams, as Florida State Hotel Commissioner, and Richard W. Ervin, as Attorney General of the State of Florida, Appellants, v. NINETEEN HUNDRED ONE COLLINS CORPORATION, a Florida corporation, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

Rehearing Denied January 6, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., George E. Owen and John C. Reed, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellants.

Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder, Atkins, Carson & Wahl, Miami, E.W. Smith, John A. Boykin, Jr., and Graham W. George, Atlanta, Ga., for Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co.

Burnett Roth, Miami Beach, for appellee.

THORNAL, Justice.

The appellants here were defendants in the Circuit Court in a chancery proceeding instituted by the appellee seeking an injunction against the enforcement of Chapter 365, Florida Statutes 1953, F.S.A., and Section 561.291, Florida Statutes, F.S.A. From a decree of the Chancellor declaring the cited statutes to be unconstitutional, this appeal was perfected.

Chapter 365, F.S., F.S.A., is the so-called "anti-bookie law" aimed at the control...

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