Case Name: State, ex rel. A. P. Gordy, v. E. J. King, as Chief of Police of River Junction
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1938-04-28
Citations: 132 Fla. 520
Docket Number: 
Parties: State, ex rel. A. P. Gordy, v. E. J. King, as Chief of Police of River Junction.
Judges: Ellis, C. J., and Whitfield, Terrell, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 132
Pages: 520–525

Head Matter:
State, ex rel. A. P. Gordy, v. E. J. King, as Chief of Police of River Junction.
180 So. 770.
Opinion Filed April 28, 1938.
C. N. Ashmore and J. Lewis Hall, for Plaintiff in Error;
E. S. Blake and H. M. Taylor, for Defendant in Error.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This is a writ of error to a final judgment entered by the Circuit Court of Gadsden County, remanding to the custody of the Sheriff, the plaintiff in error, A. P. Gordy, who was held in custody under an affidavit and warrant charging the violation of Ordinance No. 121 of the City of River Junction, which ordinance levied a license of "$50.00 per table for pool rooms."
This ordinance is in conflict with Chapter 17,167 of the Acts of 1935, and the petitioner should therefore have been discharged. This case; is governed by the case of City of Orlando v. Gill, 128 Fla. 139, 174 So. 224, which the majority of the Court consider to be in point here and conclusive of this case. The judgment of the court below is accordingly reversed.
Ellis, C. J., and Whitfield, Terrell, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.
Ci-iapman, J., dissents.