State v. Hollingsworth
Decision Date | 09 December 1931 |
Citation | 103 Fla. 801,138 So. 372 |
Parties | STATE et rel. TULLIDGE v. HOLLINGSWORTH et al. |
Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Original proceeding in mandamus by the State, on the relation of Edwin K. Tullidge, against S. G. Hollingsworth and others constituting the State Board of Medical Examiners of Florida. On respondent's motion to quash the alternative writ.
Motion overruled.
COUNSEL Wallace F. Perry, of Miami, for relator.
Waller & Pepper, of Tallahassee, for respondents.
Alternative writ of mandamus was granted by this court, directed to the state board of medical examiners, commanding them to restore the name of relator, Edwin K. Tullidge, to the roll as a legally licensed doctor, physician, and surgeon in the state of Florida and to reinstate his license as such and set aside and vacate the order heretofore made by them revoking the license of said Edwin K. Tullidge. A motion to quash the alternative writ was seasonably entered.
The motion to quash invokes the provisions of section 13 (section 5), chapter 12285, Acts of 1927, being section 3415, Compiled General Laws of Florida 1927, as a bar to relief on behalf of relator; it being contended that said act provides a complete and adequate remedy peculiar to causes of this kind.
Section 3415, Compiled General Laws of Florida 1927, provides for revoking, suspending, or annulling the license of practitioners of medicine in this state. After enumerating the grounds for such revocation or suspension, the statute defines the procedure to be followed in these terms:
The statute further provides that the accused may have a trial de novo...
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