Case ID: ohio-law-abs_4/html/0182-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ALLEN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 233
    No. 19335
    The State ex rel, Joseph I. Mayers, vs. Stanley C. Gray, et al, as the Ohio State Board of Optometry.
    In Mandamus.
    717. LICENSES — State Board of Optometry in revoking license for unprofessional conduct performs executive and not judicial function.
   ALLEN, J.

1. Under the provisions of Section 1295-31, General Code (110 O. L. 22) the State Board of Optometry in revoking a license for grossly unprofessional conduct, is performing an executive and not a judicial function.

2. The extraordinary wi’it of mandamus will not issue to compel the- State Board of Optometry to reinstate the license of an optometrist who has been notified of charges embodied in an affidavit, given an opportunity to make a statement and to produce witnesses in his own behalf, and has failed so to do.

Demurrer sustained.

Marshall, CJ., Day, Kinkade and Robinson, JJ., concur.