Johnson Service Co. v. Florida Electrical Contractors Licensing Board
Johnson Service Co. v. Florida Electrical Contractors Licensing Board
Opinion of the Court
We affirm the trial court’s judgment dismissing plaintiffs-appellants’ second amended complaint and their action for injunction to require defendant-appellee licensing board to administer to plaintiffs the examination for electrical contractors. Chapter 468, Florida Statutes (1973).
Under the law existing when the controversy arose, an injunctive remedy in licensing disputes was available only when the agency utterly failed to examine into the applicant’s qualifications or otherwise acted arbitrarily and capriciously. Bay National Bank & Trust Company v. Dickinson,
Plaintiffs’ second amended complaint contains the bald allegation that the board acted arbitrarily in denying them admission to the examination and that plaintiffs were qualified, but it does not set forth allegations of the claimed arbitrariness sufficiently to invoke circuit court jurisdiction under the Dickinson, supra, rule.
AFFIRMED.
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