Downs v. Nebraska State Board of Examiners

Landis, District Judge.

This is an action in mandamus brought by the relator, Celwyn Mervyn Downs, wherein he seeks a peremptory writ of mandamus directing the Nebraska State Board of Examiners for Professional Engineers and Architects to issue him a certificate of registration to practice engineering without an examination as provided for by section 9 of Legislative Bill No. 14 of the 1937 session (Comp. St. Supp. 1939, sec. 71-3309). A peremptory writ was issued below, and the board of examiners appeals.

The controlling issues are: Was relator entitled to be registered, was the action of the…