In re Christensen

Citations

• 59 Wash. 314
• 109 P. 1040
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1195

Syllabus

<p>Physicians and Surgeons — License—Statutes—Construction. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 8389, authorizing persons who desire to treat the sick to register their diplomas and receive a license on the payment of a fee, provided that they show evidence satisfactory to the examining board that they have been “legally” engaged in practice prior to the passage of the act, and are graduates of colleges or schools of prescribed qualifications, “or by having been in continuous practice in one locality in this state for the past two years,” and § 8406, providing that licensees shall use only such titles as are designated in their diplomas, “or those having no diplomas” only such as are designated in their licenses, an applicant is entitled to a license upon a showing that he has been in continuous practice in one locality for the two years previous to the passage of the act, without any diploma, and although not “legally” engaged in practice as required by the then existing statute making practice without a license a misdemeanor.</p>