State ex rel. Makris v. Superior Court

Citations

• 113 Wash. 296
• 12 A.L.R. 1428
• 193 P. 845
• 1920 Wash. LEXIS 841

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional Law (114) — Equal Protection of Laws — Licenses — Revocation as Prohibition of Lawful Business. The equal protection clause of the Federal constitution and the prohibition of the granting of special privileges, are violated by the provisions in Tacoma ordinance No. 7301 giving the commissioner of public safety, and the city council upon appeal, the arbitrary power, uncontrolled by any prescribed rule of action, to decide who may and may not engage in the business of selling candy and soft drinks, With discretionary power to revoke licenses for disorderly or immoral- conduct or whenever the preservation of.-public morality, -health or good order, in the judgment of the commissioner, renders it necessary.</p>