KNIGHT & WALL COMPANY v. BRYANT

No. 33660.

178 So.2d 5 (1965)

KNIGHT & WALL COMPANY, a Florida corporation, Spicola Hardware Company, Inc., a Florida corporation, Younkin Sports Supply, Inc., a Florida corporation, Appellants, v. Farris BRYANT, Governor of Florida, Tom Adams, Secretary of State, Ray E. Green, Comptroller, James W. Kynes, Attorney General, J. Edwin Larson, Treasurer, Thomas D. Bailey, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Doyle E. Conner, Commissioner of Agriculture, as and constituting the State Revenue Commission, and J. Ed Straughn, As Director of the State Revenue Commission, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied September 13, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. DuBose Ausley of Ausley, Ausley, McMullen, O'Bryan, Michaels & McGehee, Tallahassee, for appellants.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Sam Spector and Ira Weinstein, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellees.


THOMAS, Justice.

This appeal comes from a decree resolving a frontal assault on Chapter 63-527, Acts of 1963, levying a tax generally on fishing, hunting, camping, swimming and diving equipment purposed to finance programs of the outdoor recreational development council. Parenthetically, one of the cases decided in the final decree, King Kole, Inc. v. Farris Bryant, Governor,* involving an attack on the title of the act so far as it relates...

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