Grissom v. Orsdel

CARROLL, Judge.

Appellants, members of the state board of funeral directors and embalmers, appeal from an adverse final decree rendered in an equity suit after trial before the chancellor. The decree denied appellants’ application to enjoin the appellee, a licensed funeral director, from advertising other than in the limited and restricted manner permitted by a rule of the plaintiffs.

Chapter 470, Fla.Stat., F.S.A., dealing with funeral directors and embalmers contemplates and permits advertising,1 and the only restriction imposed is against misleading or inaccurate advertising.2 The board was…