Knape v. Brown, 6575
| Decision Date | 15 July 1959 |
| Docket Number | No. 6575,6575 |
| Citation | 86 Ariz. 158,342 P.2d 195 |
| Parties | Mildred Louise KNAPE and Arthur W. Knape, husband and wife, Appellants, v. Elizabeth A. BROWN, Isabel Rogers and Pearl Ware, as President, Vice-President and Secretary, respectively, of the Arizona State Board of Beauty Culturist Examiners, Appellees. |
| Court | Arizona Supreme Court |
Lovell B. Lieurance and Thos. J. Croaff, Jr., Phoenix, for appellants.
Robert Morrison, Atty. Gen., by Newman W. White, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.
Mildred Louise Knape (plaintiff-appellant), made application to the Board of Beauty Culturist Examiners (defendants-appellees) for a certificate of registration entitling her to practice or operate a school or shop of beauty culture in accordance with the requirements of the Beauty Culture Act, A.R.S. Title 32, Chapter 5. The parties will hereafter be referred to as plaintiff and the Board, respectively.
After an examination, the Board refused to issue plaintiff a certificate of registration upon the ground that she had failed to receive a passing grade of seventy-five percent upon the examination. Thereafter the instant suit--which is in the nature of an appeal--was brought in the superior court to review said action of the Board. The complaint recites that it is brought under the Administrative Review Act, A.R.S. Title 12, Article 6, sections 12-901 et seq., and it is further alleged:
'* * *, the said Board, in grading the answers and responses of the Plaintiff, did arbitrarily, capriciously, prejudicially, and wrongfully and knowingly, and with the intent then and there to wrongfully deprive the Plaintiff of her right to practice beauty culture in Arizona, fail and refuse to give to said Plaintiff the credit due her in the grading of such examination and did, on the 19th day of June, 1956, inform her that she had failed the same, when in truth and in fact the Plaintiff had made and was entitled to grade of more than 75%.'
The Board filed an answer and a motion to dismiss the complaint upon the ground that the trial court lacked jurisdiction of the subject matter of the action. Specifically it was urged (a) that no appeal would lie under the Administrative Review Act, A.R.S. § 12-902, because plaintiff's exclusive remedy was to apply for review under the Beauty Culture Act, A.R.S. § 32-554, F and G, and (b) that the required appeal bond had not been furnished. After oral argument was had the Board's motion to dismiss was granted and a judgment of dismissal was entered. This timely appeal followed.
It is elemental that the right of appeal is one given litigants by statute, and exists only by force of statute, and this right is limited by the terms of the statute. See, State Tax Commission v. Miami Copper Co., 74 Ariz. 234, 246 P.2d 871; Ross v. Industrial Commission, 82 Ariz. 9, 307 P.2d 612, and the cases cited therein.
The correctness of the trial court's ruling in entering a judgment of dismissal is the sole question presented for determination. If the matter is governed by the appeal provisions of the Beauty Culture Act, then manifestly the trial court's ruling was correct. Furthermore it appears plaintiff wholly failed to file a cost bond of $200 within thirty days, or at all, as is required by section 32-554F. The failure to file such a bond is considered jurisdictional. Cf. Shattuck v. Costello, 8 Ariz. 255, 71 P. 940; Dean v. Territory, 13 Ariz. 152, 108 P. 476; Lount v. Strouss, 63 Ariz. 323, 162 P.2d 430; A.R.S. Rule 73(h), Rules of Civil Procedure.
Let us examine the pertinent statutes. The Beauty Culture Act, section 32-554, expressly provides:
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