10 Mont. 162 | Mont. | 1890
This proceeding is an application for a writ of mandamus.
The relator filed his affidavit herein setting forth the following averments: “That he,Carlton V.Narcross,is a citizen of the United States, and is over the age of twenty-one years; that he is now and for more than seven years last past has been a resident of the Territory and State of Montana, and of the county of Silver Bow. That he is a graduate of the medical department of the State University of Iowa, situate at Iowa City in said State; that said medical department of the university aforesaid is a legally organized medical school, within the meaning of section three (3), of an act of the territorial legislature
Upon this affidavit affiant prayed for an alternative writ of mandate, commanding said board of medical examiners to issue to affiant the certificate provided for by law in such cases, authorizing and empowering affiant to practice medicine within this State, or that said board show cause why the same was not done. The writ of mandate was issued accordingly. The respondent board appeared by its president, and moves the court to quash the writ on the ground that the relator has a plain, speedy, and adequate remedy at law. If the relator has a plain, speedy, and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law, he cannot invoke the aid of this extraordinary writ. This is not only the doctrine uniformly held by the court, but it is so declared by our statute. “The writ shall be issued in all
The act creating said board of medical examiners and defining their power and duties, provides: First, that all persons wishing to practice medicine or surgery in the State of Montana shall comply with the requirements thereof; secondly, that all persons practicing medicine in the Territory of Montana at the time said act became a law, who were graduates in medicine from a medical school found by said board to be legally organized and in good standing, whose teachers were graduates of a legally organized school, should be admitted to practice medicine, on presenting to said board a diploma from such school, if such diploma was found to be genuine, and had been issued to the person presenting the same; thirdly, said act provides for an examination by said board of those wishing to practice medicine in this State, who were not graduates of such a school as the act describes, and also of graduates of such schools, who commence to practice medicine in this State after the passage of said act. It is further provided in section 4 of said act as follows: “And such board may refuse or revoke a certificate for unprofessional, dishonorable, or immoral conduct, or refuse a certificate to any one who may publicly profess to cure, or treat disease, injury, or deformity, in such a manner as to deceive the public. In all cases of refusal or revocation, the applicant, if he or she feels aggrieved, may appeal to the District Court of the county where such applicant may have applied for a certificate. Now it is clear that the legislature in creating this board of medical examiners, contemplated the subjection of its final acts in refusing to grant the certificate, authorizing the applicant to practice medicine, as well as its acts of revocation of such certificate, to the supervising control of the District Courts.
The remedy for the wrongful denial or revocation of a certificate by this board, is provided in the act to be an appeal to the District Court. It is the final action of the board in refusing relator a certificate entitling him to pursue the practice of his profession, which he complains of. This question is ably expounded in the light of numerous authorities cited by Mr. High in his work on Extraordinary Demedies, sections 15 and
Respondent’s motion to quash the writ sustained.