M. M. M., Inc. v. Mitchell

The primary question in this proceeding is whether an engineer, who has been issued an original certificate under Sec. 15 of the statute regulating the practice of professional engineering (Art. 3271a Vernon’s Tex. Civ. Stats. Ann.) is yet illegally practicing when he contracts to and does render engineering services during a year for which he has failed to pay his annual certificate renewal fee as required by Sec. 16 of the same law. Both mentioned sections are copied in the footnote.1 The suit is one by the *229respondent, A. J. Mitchell, for the $5,250 balance of a sum which our petitioner, M.…