# Pugsley v. Sellmeyer

> Supreme Court of Arkansas · April 9, 1923 · 158 Ark. 247

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7812138

## Case

- **Full name:** Pugsley v. Sellmeyer
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Arkansas
- **Decided:** April 9, 1923
- **Citations:** 158 Ark. 247; 250 S.W. 538; 30 A.L.R. 1212; 1923 Ark. LEXIS 443
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Hart
- **Judges:** Hart, Humphreys, Smith
- **Cited by:** 42 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Hart, J., (dissenting). Miss Pearl Pugsley was 18 years old on the 15th of August, 1922. I think that a rule forbidding a girl pupil of her age from putting talcum powder on her face is so far unreasonable and beyond the exercise of discretion that the court should say that the board of directors acted without authority in making and enforcing it. “Useless laws diminish the authority of necessary ones.” The tone of the majority opinion exemplifies the wisdom of this old proverb.

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