FRANKS v. DAVIS

No. 31605.

145 So.2d 228 (1962)

Claude M. FRANKS, As Tax Assessor of Alachua County, Florida, Appellant, and Florida Retail Federation, Inc., et al., Appellant-Intervenors, v. G.M. DAVIS et al., As and Constituting the Board of County Commissioners of Alachua County, Florida, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied October 23, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Watson, Jr., Gainesville, for appellant.

Reinstine, Reinstine & Panken, Jacksonville, for appellant-intervenors.

Henry L. Gray, Gainesville, for appellees.


DREW, Justice.

The appeal in this cause is from a decree of the Circuit Court for Alachua County directly passing upon the validity of a state statute and construing a controlling provision of the Florida Constitution.1

Suit by appellees for declaratory decree resulted in the entry of the controverted adjudication: that Chapter 61-295, Laws of Florida 1961, F.S.A. § 192.05,2 providing

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