State ex rel. Wentworth v. Fahey

Mandamus to compel the registrar of vital statistics of Duluth and the state registrar of vital statistics to file a certificate of death. The respondents demurred to the alternative writ. From an order sustaining the demurrer the relator .appeals.

*221The statute requires in case oí death “a medical certificate subscribed by the attending physician.” G. S. 1913, § 4652, Laws 1917, p. 332, c. 220, Laws 1921, p. 319, c. 273. The certificate must give the disease or injury, the contributing cause or complication, duration of illness, and other particulars. The relator is a chiropractor as defined by…