Northwest By-Products Co. v. Minnesota State Board of Health

Murphy, Justice.

Petitioner, Northwest By-Products Company, Inc., was notified by the State Board of Health that on September 9, 1968, it would conduct a hearing on the complaint of the St. Cloud Board of Health that petitioner was “operating an offensive trade in violation of Minnesota Statutes 1967, Section 145.17,” the so-called “Offensive Trade Act,” at its location in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Minn. St. 145.17, so far as applicable here, provides:

“No person without the written permission of the board of health of the town, village, or city, shall engage therein in any trade or employment…