Lane v. State Board for Registration of Professional Engineers

LAVENDER, Justice.

This appeal involves the judgment of a district court which denied a petition by Arthur E. Lane (the plaintiff in error herein and plaintiff below) for a writ of mandamus commanding the State Board for Registration of Professional Engineers (the defendant in error herein and defendant below) to register the plaintiff as a “professional engineer” and issue to him a certificate of such registration. The Board was created by the 1935 statutes which later appeared as 59 O.S.1961, §§ 421 and 422.

As we understand the situation, the appeal involves only the discretion or judgment,…