Skrmetta v. Alabama Oyster Commission

BOULDIN, Justice.

Marko Skrmetta, doing business as Deer Island Fish & Oyster Company, filed his bill in equity to enjoin the Alabama Oyster Commission, and the individual members of the commission, from enforcing a regulation of the commission prohibiting the taking of oysters by dredging on all public reefs and state-owned bottoms in Alabama waters.

Demurrer to the bill being sustained, and complainant failing to amend within the time given in the decree, the bill was dismissed. Complainant appeals.

The bill challenges the constitutionality of the act creating the Alabama Oyster Commission…