BIGLER v. DEPARTMENT OF BANKING & FINANCE

No. II-399.

368 So.2d 449 (1979)

John E. BIGLER, Jr., et al., the Organizers of the Lower Keys State Bank, Petitioners, v. DEPARTMENT OF BANKING & FINANCE and Gerald A. Lewis, Comptroller, and Head of Said Department, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

March 14, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry E. Levy of Dickinson, Levy & Taylor, Tallahassee, for petitioners.

Eugene J. Cella and S. Craig Kiser, Tallahassee, for respondents.

J. Riley Davis of Taylor, Brion, Buker & Greene, Tallahassee, for amicus curiae.


McCORD, Chief Judge.

Petitioners seek review of respondent Department's denial of their application for authority to organize a corporation for the purpose of conducting a state chartered general banking business in Big Pine Key, Florida. The application was denied on the ground that it did not meet the requirements of § 659.03(2)(a), (b), (c), (d) and (f), Florida Statutes (1977). The final order declared:

"In view of the fact that two of these criteria...

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