BREWER v. GRAY


86 So.2d 799 (1956)

A. Max BREWER and O.L. Burton, Individually and as State Representatives from Brevard County, Appellants, v. R.A. GRAY, as Secretary of State, Richard W. Ervin, as Attorney General, Charles D. Stewart, Bernie C. Papy, W.H. Carmine, Jr., and Walter O. Shepard, as State Representatives, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

April 11, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Butt & Akridge, Cocoa, and Crofton, Wilson & Brewer, Titusville, for appellants.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Howard S. Bailey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.


THORNAL, Justice.

Appellants Brewer and Burton who were plaintiffs below appeal from a decree of the Chancellor sustaining the constitutionality of Chapter 31378, Laws of Florida, Extraordinary Session 1955, which reapportioned membership of the House of Representatives of the Florida Legislature.

The question before us on appeal and which was ruled on by the Chancellor below is whether Chapter 31378, supra, which reapportioned the membership of the House...

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