Hodges v. Filstrup

Statement.

This is an appeal to review a final decree of the Circuit Court of Okaloosa County, Florida, granting a permanent injunction against the appellant, defendant in the court below, T. R. Hodges, Shell Fish Commissioner of the State of Florida, forbidding the seizure and sale or destruction by him of 6,000 pounds of frozen mullet, alleged to have been the property of the appellee, H. L. Filstrup.

C. G. Meigs, a fish dealer, purchased and received possession of 6,000 pounds of mullet on November 30, 1926. The fish were then brought and placed in an ice plant at Niceville, and there frozen…