Saunders v. Swann

This bill was brought under the Declaratory Judgment Act to test the constitutionality of chapter 99', Acts of 1925, regulating the practice of Optometry. The Chancellor sustained the act.

While several of its provisions are attacked as in violation of section 8 of articles XI and I, the provision most specifically complained of appears to be that limiting the practice of any one “Itinerant Optometrist,” as defined in the act, to not more than any .three such counties in the State as he may select. We are not of opinion that this limitation is so unreasonable and arbitrary as to violate the…