Hunter v. Flowers

The sole question to be determined on this appeal is the constitutionality vel non of the provisions of Section 86.06, Florida Statutes 1941, F.S.A., authorizing the recovery of an attorney's fee by a successful claimant in a summary proceeding to enforce a laborer's lien against real or personal property when the laborer is in privity with the owner of such property.

Section 86.06, supra, was enacted into law by Chapter 12079, Laws of Florida 1927, which chapter re-enacted Section 3519 of the Revised General Statutes 1920, relating to the enforcement of laborers' liens, and added thereto an…