State Ex Rel. Kohler's Snowite Laundry & Cleaners, Inc. v. State Board of Commerce & Industry

My opinion is that the refusal of the State Board of Commerce and Industry to allow the exemption claimed by Kohler’s Snowite Laundry & Cleaners, Inc., was an arbitrary ruling. I use the word arbitrary not in the ugly sense of being wilfully or intentionally unfair, but in the legal sense in which the word is defined by the lexicographers, as determined not by any provision in the constitutional amendment itself but by the will of the board and without a substantial reason. Webster’s New International Dictionary, verbo arbitrary; Ballentine’s Law Dictionary; Black’s Law Dictionary, Third…