Territory v. Sing High

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

HARTWEDL, C.J. (Wilder, J., Dissenting.)

The defendant was charged with carrying on a laundry business without obtaining a license therefor which is required by Sec. 1418 I, Act 96 S. L. 1907. The defendant demurring to *629the charge on the ground that the act denies him equal protection of the laws in contravention of the fourteenth amendment, the court reserved the question whether the demurrer should be sustained or overruled. The act provides that the treasurer may issue licenses “to maintain and operate a laundry, dyeing or cleaning or dyeing and cleaning works upon…