Opinion

State Ex Rel. Standard Optical Co. v. Superior Court

  • 17 Wash. 2d 323
  • 135 P.2d 839
Court
Washington Supreme Court
Filed
Mar 29, 1943
Status
Published
Author
Millard
On the bench
Mallery, Beals, Millard, Simpson, Steinert, Blake, Robinson
Cited by
21 cases

holding that a corporation could not avoid statutory limitations on scope of practice by contract with those who could so practice

How later courts described this case

  • holding that a corporation could not avoid statutory limitations on scope of practice by contract with those who could so practice
  • involving corporate employment of licensed optometrists

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Millard, J.

(concurring)—No one may practice optometry in this state without first obtaining a certificate of registration or other permit from the board of examiners. The practice of optometry or any other profession by a corporation may not be legally sanctioned. An individual who is not licensed and/or a corporation which can not be licensed to practice optometry may not engage in the practice of that pro

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fession by the expedient of employing a licensed optometrist. I therefore concur in the majority opinion.

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