Gillett v. Colson

Appellees exhibited their bill of complaint in the Circuit Court in and for Polk County in the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, against the appellants seeking to prohibit and enjoin the enforcement of Chapter 16800, Acts of the Legislature of 1935, on the ground that the legislative Act was unconstitutional and void because it violates Section 16 of Article III of the Constitution and because it violates Section 12 of the Declaration of Rights of the Constitution of Florida and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution.

After stating the findings, the chancellor decreed;

“That the…