State ex rel. Markens v. Brown
Supreme Court of Florida
Chapter 3416, of the Laws of Florida, approved March 3, 1883, and commonly, however inaccurately, spoken of as “ the Local Option Liquor Law ” is the statute in question. The respondent is Collector of Revenue of Duval county. The other facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chief-Justice delivered the opinion of the court'.
This is an original application for a mandamus to compel the Collector of Revenue to issue a license to relator to sell intoxicating liquors, notwithstanding the act of the Legislature of 1883, Chapter 3416. It is alleged by relator that the act printed in the statutes is not a valid law because a material amendment to the bill had been made by the Houses of the Legislature before its passage, which amendment had not been incorporated in the bill as enrolled and signed, and therefore the act as published is not the act as passed.- It is…
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