State ex rel. Board of Dental Examiners v. Allen

This is an appeal by Allen from the Chancellor’s decree adjudging Chapter 69 of the Public Acts of 1949 to be unconstitutional. This statute authorizes the Quarterly County Court of Carter County to ‘ ‘ establish the office of District Dentist in the ¡Second Civil District to treat only persons within the confines of the Second Civil District of said County for compensation paid by those treated”.

That statute further provides: “That said District Dentist shall continue to so act only so long as there is no dentist licensed by the State of Tennessee resident in said Second Civil District. ’ ’

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