The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-06-23
SPECIAL LAW
OF INTEREST
Regulating the Business of Fruit
and Produce Brokers
FULL ACCOUNT SALES
Name and Address of Purchasers Must
be Furnished Growers Civil
Damages Provided

The following special act applicable
to the pineapple industry, was passed
by the legislature through the efforts
of Representative Fred Fee:
An act regulating the business of fruit
or produce brokers and commission
merchants, providing a rule of evil
dence in connection Herewith; a pen
atty for the violation thereof, and
rule for civil damages in suits against
such brokers or commission merch-
ants.
Be it enacted by the legislature of the
State of Florida:
Section l.. Any person, firm or cor
poration doing in this State the BUSH
ness of fruit or produce broker or COM
mission merchant, receiving pineapples
in car lots or less grown in this State,
for shipment or consignment shall make
return of an account sales showing the
cost and expenses charged against the
returns, together with the name and
address of the purchaser within ten
days of the sale.
Section 2. Any person, firm or cor
pOration maintaining an Office or soiic-
ting personally or by agent such bust
ness in this State shall be presumed to
be doing such business IN this State.
Section 3. Any person, firm or cor
poration, agent or servant of such per-
son. firm or corporation failing to COM
ply with the provisions of this Act shall
be fined not to exceed five hundred dol
lars.
Section 4. Any person. firm or cor
poration doing the business of fruit or
produce broker or commission merchant
receiving pineapples in car lots or less
grown in this State for shipment or
consignment and who have not returned
an account sales showing the cost and
expenses charged against the returns;
also the name and address of the pur-
chaser within ten days of the sale shall
be liable in damages for any loss by
reason of delayed account sales. The
loss shipper or consignor may sustain
on cars of pineapples consigned to the
said person, firm or corporation over
what he could have obtained in other
market or by other agencies, shall be
considered prOximate damage from
the delayed account sales. The meas
nre of damages shall be the difference
between the prevailing price in the
general market at time OF receipt by
consignee and the price received for
such cars. or less, of pineapples con-
signed to said broker or commission
merchant between the time the account
sales were due and the time received.
Section 5. In any suit for account
ing against any person, firm or corpor-
alton doing the business of fruit or pro-
duce broker or commission merchant
receiving pineapples in car lots or less
grown in this State for shipment or
consignment and who have not return
ed an account sales showing the cost
and expenses charged against the re.
turns with the name and address of the
purchaser, within ten days of the sale,
the said person, firm or corporation
shall be held accountable to the shipper
or consignee of said car lots, or less, of
fruit for the full market price at the
time of the receipt by the said person.
firm or corporation of the said shipment
or consignment
Section 6. This Act shall take effect
within ten days after its passage and
approval by the Governor or on its be-
coming law without such approval.
Approved June 3, 1911.
State of Florida, office Secretary State.
|, H. Clay Crawford, Secretary of
State of the State of Florida, do here
by certify that the foregoing is true
and correct copy of an act regulating
the business of fruit or produce brokers
and commission merchants, providing a
rule of evidence in connection Herewith:
a penalty for the violation thereof, and
a rule for civil damages in suits against
such brokers or commission merchants;
Session laws of Florida, 1911; approved
by the Governor, and filed in this office.
Given under my hand, and the Great
seal of the State of Florida, at ITALIA
hassee, the Capital. this the seventeenth
day Of June, A. D. 1911.
(SeaD H. CLAY CRAWFORD
Socrofory of xtoto