CHARLOTTE COUNTY v. FISKE

No. 76-1870.

350 So.2d 578 (1977)

CHARLOTTE COUNTY, a Political Subdivision of the State of Florida, and Englewood Disposal Company, Inc., Appellants, v. Walter L. FISKE and Lucy E. Fiske, Husband and Wife, Vernon Ridenhour and Geraldine Ridenhour, Husband and Wife, Emil R. Sweptson, Richard G. Bowman, Ada Bondi and Gertrude Lingeman, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

October 12, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. William Thompson, County Atty., Punta Gorda, for appellant Charlotte County.

Leo Wotitzky of Wotitzky, Wotitzky, Johnson, Mandell & Batsel, Punta Gorda, for appellant Englewood Disposal Company, Inc.

William R. Korp of Korp, Wheeler & McGill, P.A., Venice, for appellees.


McNULTY, Acting Chief Judge.

Appellants appeal from an order voiding a county ordinance regulating garbage and trash collection and disposal in a certain unincorporated area of Charlotte County. We reverse.

In 1975 Charlotte County had a garbage problem because the county's dumps were ordered closed and were replaced by a single sanitary land fill located in the southern part of the county. The Englewood area, about 40 miles from the land fill, was becoming...

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