Lesniak v. Department of Registration & Education

PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court, in an administrative review proceeding, affirming a decision of the Department of Registration and Education.

The department had issued a funeral director’s certificate to the plaintiff in 1954. This was revoked in 1956, after a hearing before the department’s Funeral Directing and Embalming Committee, upon the finding that Lesniak had falsely sworn in his 1954 application that he was an Illinois citizen and a permanent resident of Chicago.

Lesniak had conducted a funeral home in…