Heiman v. Stoutamire

LONG, District Judge.

This cause is before the Court upon the petition for writ of habeas corpus of one S. J. Heiman, A. E. Lichtenstein and Warren Cas-h, residents of Miami, Florida, who are now in the custody of the Sheriff in the county jail of Leon County, Florida, held under a contempt order for the disobedience of a writ issued by the Supreme Court of Florida.

It appears from the petition that in the year 1937 Chapter 17894 was passed by the Florida Legislature and commonly referred to as the Florida Dry Cleaning and' Laundry Act. During the year 1938 the Supreme Court of Florida in the…