Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...Sections 585.09 and 585.10, to be understood, must be read in connection with related provisions of Chapter 585, F.S. Such related provisions (a) identify and declare brucellosis and other named diseases to be known as dangerous, transmissible diseases (§ 585.15); (b) provide that when such diseases enumerated in Section 585.15 shall exist in the state, the Commissioner through the Division of Animal Industry, "* * * may, or through its representatives and agents, dip, examine, test, identify, treat or destroy, any infected, exposed, suspected or susceptible...

...loy’s Medical Dictionary for Lawyers to mean “ * * * to inject or insert serums, vaccines or antigens for preventive or curative purposes”. Apparently, the parties in the trial court and in this court have overlooked the provisions of Sections 585.15 and 585.16, Florida Statutes, F.S.A. By Section 585.15, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., the Legislature defined certain dangerous transmissible diseases of animals as including hog cholera. Section 585.16, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., in part provides: “585.16 Powers of board in connection with certain diseases' * *768 “Whenever any of the diseases enumerated in § 585.15 or any disease now or hereafter proclaimed by the Florida livestock board to be of a dangerous or transmissible nature, shall exist anywhere within the state, or whenever it is deemed necessary or advisable to dip, examine, test, treat or d...