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

> Washington Supreme Court · March 29, 1943 · 17 Wash. 2d 323

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3994671

## Case

- **Full name:** The State of Washington, on the Relation of Standard Optical Company, Plaintiff, v. the Superior Court for Chelan County, Kemp, Judge, Respondent
- **Court:** Washington Supreme Court
- **Decided:** March 29, 1943
- **Citations:** 17 Wash. 2d 323; 135 P.2d 839
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Millard
- **Judges:** Mallery, Beals, Millard, Simpson, Steinert, Blake, Robinson
- **Cited by:** 21 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

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

## Opinion text

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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