Case ID: fla_121/html/0359-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam Davis, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

James W. Foley, Chairman, J. L. Robison, et al., as and constituting the Board of County Commissioners of Polk County, v. I. C. Boucher.
    163 So. 925.
    Opinion Filed October 2, 1935.
    
      Solon G. Wilson, P. H. Mears, Cecil B. Smith, V. A. Sims, and Carver and Langston, for Apellants;
    
      Rawdon E. Bradley, for Appellee.
   Per Curiam

The appeal brings for review an order holding the allegations of a bill of complaint being sufficient to show the validity of a local option election held in Polk County, Florida, under the provisions of House Joint Resolution No. 83 of the Legislature of 1933 which became a part of the organic law of this State upon its adoption as such at the General Election on November 6th, 1934, and sufficient to' show the necessity of a recount of the ballots cast in that election.

It would serve no úseful purpose to discuss the questions presented here, as the conditions under which this election was held will probably never occur again.

The Order of the Circuit Judge should be affirmed on authority of Coleman, Sheriff, v. State, ex rel Race, 118 Fla. 201, 159 Sou. 504, and Wiggins, et al., ex rel. Drane, 106 Fla. 793, 144 Sou. 62.

It is so ordered.

Affirmed.

Whitfield, C. J., and Terrell, Buford and Davis, J. J., concur.

Davis, J.

(concurring). — I think the amendment XIX of the Constitution reinstated all laws precedent to prohibition that related to the liquor question and local option, including statutory election contests over said elections as a means of testing their validity. I concur on other points.