Perry v. Genung

WHITE, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals an order dismissing his complaint for declaratory decree with prejudice. Plaintiff is the owner and operator of a restaurant known as “Benoit’s” located in Pinellas County which in the past has been operated as a restaurant and as a so-called bottle club. Prior to the passage of a 1963 Special Act applicable only to Pinellas County,1 plaintiff sold his patrons ice, water and set-ups and permitted storage of alcoholic beverages on his premises and permitted his patrons to bring their own alcoholic beverages onto his premises at any hour. Plaintiff did not sell…