FLORIDA PUBLIC SERV. v. TRIPLE "A" ENTERPRISES

No. 56338.

387 So.2d 940 (1980)

FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, Robert Shevin, Attorney General, Petitioners, v. TRIPLE "A" ENTERPRISES, INC., Frank Lachacz, Robert Barrett and Richard Trankley, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

September 4, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Prentice P. Pruitt, Legal Director, and Paul Sexton and William E. Sundstrom, Staff Counsels, Tallahassee, for Florida Public Service Commission; and Martin S. Friedman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for Attorney General, petitioners.

Law Offices of Cone, Owen, Wagner, Nugent, Johnson, Hazouri & Roth and Larry Klein, West Palm Beach, Florida, for respondents.

James G. Mahorner, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Tallahassee, for Department of Health and Rehabilitatives Services, amicus curiae.


ADKINS, Justice.

This cause is before us by petition for writ of certiorari to review an interlocutory order of the Circuit Court of the 19th Judicial Circuit in and for Martin County holding that section 47.011, Florida Statutes (1977), is unconstitutional. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.

The statute reads as follows: "Where actions may be begun. — Actions shall be brought only in the county where the defendant resides, where...

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