KIRKLAND v. PHILLIPS


106 So.2d 909 (1958)

Frank KIRKLAND, Arthur G. Preacher, Howard Hornsby, David L. Sykes, and Joe Edd Ward, as members of and constituting the Board of County Commissioners of Liberty County, Florida, and W.A. Woodward, As Clerk of the Circuit Court, in and for Liberty County, Florida, Appellants, v. Richard PHILLIPS, S.P. Fairchild, Frances Gunn, Charles W. Roberts, Sr., and John Wynn, as members of and constituting the Board of Port Commissioners for the Liberty County Port Authority, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied December 16, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Kenneth Ballinger, Tallahassee, and Marion B. Knight, Blountstown, for appellants.

J. Lewis Hall of Hall, Hartwell & Douglass, Tallahassee, for appellees.


THORNAL, Justice.

Appellants Kirkland and others, who were plaintiffs below, seek reversal of a final decree of the Chancellor upholding the constitutionality of two local acts of the Legislature.

We are called upon to determine the constitutionality of Chapter 30946, Laws of Florida 1955, and Chapter 57-1533, Laws of Florida 1957, against the contention of appellants that the statutes respectively violate Sections 20 and 16 of Article III, Constitution of...

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