Florida Sugar Distributors, Inc. v. Wood

This is an appeal from an order made by Lion. H. F. Atkinson, Senior Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, sustaining a motion interposed by the defendant tax collector and dismissing a bill of complaint which had been filed by a number of wholesale merchants seeking to enjoin the defendant tax collector from enforcing that provision of Section 5 of Chapter 18011 of the Laws of 1937 which imposes upon wholesalers an additional license tax of $1.50 for each $1000.00 of their stock of merchandise kept by them for sale.

The main contention of appellants is that the provision of the statute…