Case Name: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Petitioner, v. Bibbson PATE, Respondent; BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Petitioner, v. Jaspar Bartha WARREN, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1969-03-19
Citations: 221 So. 2d 732
Docket Number: Nos. 37801, 37800
Parties: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Petitioner, v. Bibbson PATE, Respondent. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Petitioner, v. Jaspar Bartha WARREN, Respondent.
Judges: ERVIN, C. J., and THORNAL, CARLTON and ADKINS, JJ-, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 221
Pages: 732–734

Head Matter:
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Petitioner, v. Bibbson PATE, Respondent. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Petitioner, v. Jaspar Bartha WARREN, Respondent.
Nos. 37801, 37800.
Supreme Court of Florida.
March 19, 1969.
Rehearing Denied May 12, 1969.
Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Halley B. Lewis and James McGuirk, Asst. Attys. Gen., for petitioner.
Edward C. Flood, Bartow, for respondents.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We have for review by conflict certio-rari these consolidated cases arising from the District Court of Appeal, Second District, and reported at 212 So.2d 811 and 212 So.2d 812 (1968). We find these decisions to he in conflict with Bruce v. Malloy, 150 Fla. 157, 7 So.2d 123 (1942).
In the consolidated cases, the District Court construed F.S. § 372.31, F.S.A., and the phrase therein "net, traps or fishing devices," as excluding boats, motors and related paraphernalia used directly and on the water in poaching operations. In MaF loy, our construction of an earlier version of this same statute (§ 24, Ch. 13644, Laws of Florida 1929), specifically allowed the forfeiture and disposal of boats and motors, and implicitly allowed forfeiture and disposal of related items used directly in poaching operations.
On the authority of our opinion in Bruce v. Malloy, supra, the consolidated decisions under review are quashed and the cause remanded to that court for further proceedings consistent herewith.
It is so ordered.
ERVIN, C. J., and THORNAL, CARLTON and ADKINS, JJ-, concur.
BOYD, J., dissents with opinion.