Miller v. Johnson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an original proceeding in mandamus in which the plaintiff, seeks to have restored to him his license as an embalmer, which the defendants, as the state board of embalming, canceled because of plaintiff’s breach of a rule of the board touching the transportation of a dead body without first embalming it and without first obtaining a removal permit from the local registrar.

The circumstances were these: One Robert Archibald, a resident of Geneseo, in Rice county, died in a hospital at Little River, in the same county; and the relatives…