State ex rel. Church v. Yeats

Whitfield, J.,

dissenting — In Ex parte Theisen, 30 Fla. 529, 11 South. Rep. 901, 32 Am. St. Rep. 36, this court held that' “the constitution has by Article XIX *516provided a way by election for absolute prohibition, and the legislature has provided for the elction under this Article;” and that statutory provisions requiring that all applications for a license to sell liquor must be signed by a majority of the registered voters of the district “provide a test as to the personal fitness of the applicant to engage in the business of retail liquor selling in counties and districts where the right to…