Judges: CHAPMAN, C. J.:
Attorneys: J. Tom Watson, Attorney General, T. Paine Kelly, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.
Leo M. Foster, Lewis H. Tribble, and Hugh L. McArthur, for appellees.
Filed: Oct. 08, 1946
Latest Update: Mar. 02, 2020
Summary: Honorable J. Tom Watson, Attorney General of the State of Florida, filed in the Circuit Court of Leon County, Florida, a pleading referred to in the record as an "Information in Equity" against H.N. Kirkman, Director of the Department of Public Safety of Florida, and Honorable J.M. Lee, as Comptroller of the State of Florida, and thereby challenges the constitutionality of Chapter 22863, Acts of 1945, Laws of Florida, but the impact of the assault centers largely around Section 3 and 8 of the Ac
Summary: Honorable J. Tom Watson, Attorney General of the State of Florida, filed in the Circuit Court of Leon County, Florida, a pleading referred to in the record as an "Information in Equity" against H.N. Kirkman, Director of the Department of Public Safety of Florida, and Honorable J.M. Lee, as Comptroller of the State of Florida, and thereby challenges the constitutionality of Chapter 22863, Acts of 1945, Laws of Florida, but the impact of the assault centers largely around Section 3 and 8 of the Act..
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I am inclined to think the Attorney General had the right to file this suit, but I concur in the view of the Court below that the Act is not shown to be unconstitutional.
