Maryland State Funeral Directors Ass'n v. State Board of Undertakers

The appellants here appeal from the dismissal of their petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the State Board of Undertakers to revoke licenses issued to John W. Ritz to engage in undertaking and embalming, on the ground that Ritz lacked the qualifications Required by law for such licenses. By the Act of 1924, ch. 275, now sections 296 to 301 of article 43 of the Code of Public General Laws, persons who were at the time of the passage of the act carrying on the business of undertaking and the profession of embalming were required to take out licenses, one each year for undertaking, and one…