Florida Ass'n of Dispensing Opticians v. Florida State Board of Optometry

CARLTON, Justice.

Petitioner filed suit for declaratory judgment in Circuit Court, Dade County, seeking determination of the right of opticians to fit and adapt, as well as prepare and dispense, contact lenses under Fla.Stat. § 484, F.S.A. Summary final judgment was adverse to petitioner and an appeal was made to the District Court of Appeal, Third District. In a decision reported at 227 So.2d 736, the District Court affirmed the judgment; there was one dissent. The case was subsequently certified as one passing upon a question of great public interest. *841Jurisdiction vests through Article V,…