# Household Finance Corp. v. State

> Washington Supreme Court · May 8, 1952 · 40 Wash. 2d 451

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9528373

## Case

- **Full name:** Household Finance Corporation, Appellant, v. the State of Washington, Respondent
- **Court:** Washington Supreme Court
- **Decided:** May 8, 1952
- **Citations:** 40 Wash. 2d 451; 244 P.2d 260; 1952 Wash. LEXIS 346
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Mallery
- **Judges:** Olson, Finley, Hamley, Mallery
- **Cited by:** 48 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the invalidity of a provision for a de novo trial in superior court in the appeal section of an act did not affect the validity of the remainder of the appeal section

## Opinion text

Mallery, J.
(dissenting)—The appellant is admittedly qualified for a license. It is denied upon the ground that too many licenses are bad. The act in question does not provide for certificates of convenience and necessity, as it would have done if the policy adopted by the legislature was to prevent competition. Deliberate monopoly through licensing ought not to be established by judicial legislation.
I dissent.

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