Murray v. Williams
| Decision Date | 15 October 1904 |
| Citation | 121 Ga. 63,48 S.E. 686 |
| Parties | MURRAY v. WILLIAMS. |
| Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
PHYSICIANS —FAILURE TO REGISTER—RECOVERY OF FEES.
1. A physician who has failed to register in compliance with the provisions of Pol. Code 1895, §§ 1479, 1480, cannot recover for professional services rendered by him.
¶ 1 See physician and Surgeons, vol. 39, Cent. Dig. § 51
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Error from Superior Court, Chatham County; Geo. T. Cann, Judge.
Action by W. J. Williams against W. H. Murray. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. Reversed.
W. A. Way, A. S. Way, and G. E. Bevans, for plaintiff in error.
W. F. Slater, for defendant in error.
The only question presented by the record in this case for adjudication is whether a physician who has registered, as required by the statute, in the county of his former residence in this state, can, after his removal into another county in the state to reside and practice bis profession, recover for professional services rendered by him in the latter county before he has registered therein, Pol. Code 1895, § 1479. "Any such registered physician in this state, who may change his residence from one county into another county In this state, shall register within the clerk's office of the county to which he removes and wherein he intends to reside and to practice medicine, as provided in the preceding section." Pol. Code 1895, § 1480. "Any person who shall fail to register or who shall practice medicine or surgery in violation of...
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