Robert Fenwick Taylor (March 10, 1849 – February 26, 1928) was an American lawyer and a Democratic politician who served on the Florida Supreme Court for 35 years, 18 of them as chief justice.

[2] His father, John Morgandollar Taylor, was a cotton and rice planter in Beaufort District, South Carolina.

[citation needed] After the end of the war he went to school at Baltimore's Maryland Military Institute (MMI).

Taylor was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court in January 1891 by Governor Francis P. Fleming to replace outgoing Justice Henry Laurens Mitchell.

Sligh had sued to overturn his conviction for delivering immature fruit to Georgia, saying the Florida law trespassed on Congresses sole authority to regulate interstate trade.

Although the law did incidentally prohibit the interstate sale of "green" fruit, it was when the state's police powers to protect public health.

The Act banned "commerce in filthy, decomposed or putrid vegetable products", but made no mention of immature fruit.

[5] The "Wells Quart Law" had been passed as part of the Florida Legislature's efforts to curb the sale of liquor.

In Ex parte Pricha,, liquor dealers contended the law violated Florida's Constitution, "by depriving citizens of .