# Alabama Board of Optometry v. Eagerton

> Supreme Court of Alabama · February 6, 1981 · 393 So. 2d 1373

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7507790

## Case

- **Full name:** The Alabama Board of Optometry, Edgar M. Warr, James Chernau, Willard Smith and George R. Carlton, Individually and in Their Capacities as Members of the Board of Optometry v. Ralph P. Eagerton, Jr., in His Capacity as the Commissioner of Revenue of the State of Alabama.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** February 6, 1981
- **Citations:** 393 So. 2d 1373; 14 A.L.R. 4th 1360; 1981 Ala. LEXIS 3268
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Jones
- **Judges:** Beatty, Maddox, Faulkner, Almon, Shores, Embry, Jones, Torbert, Adams
- **Cited by:** 4 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

JONES, Justice
(concurring in the result).
I concur in the result. I would overrule Haden v. McCarty, 275 Ala. 76 , 152 So.2d 141 (1963). After careful study of the issue here presented, I am of the opinion that the “practice of a learned profession” dichotomy is wholly irrelevant to an appropriate interpretation and application of the taxing statute in question.

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