Jane T. Cook v. Highway Casualty Company and Florida Industrial Commission

Osceola Fruit Distributors, petitioner, with its main office in Kissimmee, Florida, holds a citrus fruit dealers license and certificate of registration for the operation of a packing house, canning plant or concentrating plant, issued under the provisions of the Florida Citrus Code, Chapter 601, Florida Statutes, F.S.A. Through certiorari, the petitioner seeks review of an order rendered by the circuit court of Osceola County in a certiorari proceeding wherein was reviewed proceedings had before the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Florida. The commissioner had entered an order suspending the certificate of registration and the citrus fruit dealers license of petitioner for a period of fourteen days. The order of suspension was issued subsequent to a hearing under a five count complaint filed by the commission. The circuit court reversed and overruled the commissioner as to counts one, two, and five, sustained him as to counts three and four, quashed the suspension order, and remanded the case to the commission for entry of an order as applied to counts three and four of the complaint.