Case ID: so2d_321/html/0005-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MISSISSIPPI STATE BOARD OF PHYSICAL THERAPY v. Earnest L. HARRINGTON.
    No. 48378.
    Supreme Court of Mississippi.
    Oct. 20, 1975.
    Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Can-nada, Lawrence J. Franck, Jackson, for appellant.
    Dudley W. Conner, Hattiesburg, for ap-pellee.
    Before PATTERSON, INZER and WALKER, JJ.
   WALKER, Justice:

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Forrest County, Mississippi, which reversed an order of the Mississippi State Board of Physical Therapy in denying a license to the appellee as provided under the “grandfather clause” of Mississippi Code Annotated section 73-23-13 (Supp.1974).

A discussion of the issues raised by the appellant would not add to the jurisprudence of the state. However, there is a patent error in the order of the circuit court which must be corrected.

The order of the circuit court provides that:

. the Mississippi State Board of Physical Therapy issue a license to Earnest L. Harrington without an examination, as provided under the “grandfather clause” of Section 73-23-13 of the Mississippi Code of 1972, as amended, as a corrective therapist; . (Emphasis added).

Section 73-23-13 only provides for the licensing of physical therapists and not corrective therapists; therefore, the order of the circuit court is hereby corrected to provide that the Mississippi State Board of Physical Therapy shall issue a license to appellee as a physical therapist.

The judgment of the lower court is affirmed as corrected.

Affirmed as corrected.

GILLESPIE, C. J., RODGERS, P. J., and SMITH, ROBERTSON, SUGG and BROOM, JJ., concur. 
      
      . Mississippi Supreme Court Rule 43.