Illinois State Board of Health v. People ex rel. Bailey

This was a petition for mandamus brought by Millard Filmore Bailey in the circuit court of Cook county, against the State- Board of Health, to compel the board to issue him a license for the practice of medicine in this State. The defendant answered the petition, and on a hearing on the pleadings and evidence the court granted the writ. To reverse the judgment of the circuit court the State Board of Health sued out a writ of error in this court.

Under the act of June 16, 1887, (Hurd’s Stat. 1897, p. 1073,) the State Board of Health adopted certain rules under which persons might be permitted…