State ex rel. Collet v. Scopel

BARRETT, Commissioner.

This is a civil action in equity instituted on behalf of the State by the Prosecuting Attorney of Jackson County, acting in his official capacity [Section 56.060],1 to enjoin the unlicensed practice of medicine by defendant, William Scopel, on the ground that such practice is “a continuing public nuisance detrimental to the public welfare and dangerous to the public health, contrary to and against the public policy of the State.” Upon this appeal by the State from the decree of the trial court dissolving the temporary restraining order theretofore issued and dismissing…