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SOMERSET IMPORTERS, LTD. v. DEPT. OF BUS. REG.

No. AL-192.

428 So.2d 679 (1983)

SOMERSET IMPORTERS, LTD., Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS REGULATION, DIVISION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND TOBACCO, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

As Amended on Rehearing March 11, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald M. Middlebrooks and Andrew E. Grigsby, of Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, for appellant.

John A. Boggs, Staff Atty., Dept. of Business Regulation, Tampa, for appellee.

Joseph C. Jacobs, Thomas M. Ervin, Jr., and Melissa Fletcher Allaman, of Ervin, Varn, Jacobs, Odom & Kitchen, Tallahassee, for amicus curiae Southern Wine & Spirits, Inc.

WENTWORTH, Judge.

This is an appeal from a declaratory statement issued by appellee pursuant to appellant's request under § 120.565, Florida Statutes. We affirm.

Appellant is a manufacturer and importer of alcoholic beverages and is the sole licensee of Appleton brand rum products. It buys rum in bulk from Jamaica and bottles it under the Appleton brand at a distillery in Kentucky. Appellant acquired the Appleton license on December 8, 1981. On February...

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