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STATE, DEPT. OF TRANSP. v. CONE BROS. CONTRACTING CO.

No. 77-1006.

364 So.2d 482 (1978)

STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION and Thomas E. Drawdy, Appellants, v. CONE BROTHERS CONTRACTING COMPANY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

As Modified On Denial of Rehearing November 15, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerrold K. Phillips, Tallahassee, Fletcher N. Baldwin, Gainesville, and H. Reynolds Sampson, Tallahassee, for appellants.

J. Rex Farrior, Jr., and Joseph G. Thresher of Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans, Tampa, for appellee.

OTT, Judge.

The case below and this appeal involves the validity of the legislature's retroactive amendment (Ch. 76-174, Laws of Florida) of a prior enactment (Ch. 74-262, Laws of Florida). The lower court ruled that the 1976 amendment was inapplicable. We disagree.

In 1974, the energy crisis caused petroleum prices to rapidly increase. This created a potentially catastrophic situation for road contractors, or their subcontractors and suppliers, who employed...

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