People v. Painless Parker Dentist

THE district attorney, in the name of the people, brought this action under chapter 28 of our Code of Civil Procedure against "Painless Parker Dentist," a California private corporation, for unlawfully usurping the franchise of practicing dentistry in the state of Colorado without having procured a license therefor, as our statute on the subject requires. The trial court sustained the defendant's general demurrer to the complaint and dismissed the action at plaintiff's costs. Its ruling was "more particularly" based on its conception that no franchise, as contemplated by our usurpation…