Hargan v. Purdy
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 7C — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL PROM LYON CIRCUIT COURT. I. Ten years’ regular and' honorable practice of medicine subsequent to the Act of 1874 comes as fully up to the standard of qualification fixed by the act as ten years’ practice prior to its approval.
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Case 7C — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL PROM LYON CIRCUIT COURT. I. Ten years’ regular and' honorable practice of medicine subsequent to the Act of 1874 comes as fully up to the standard of qualification fixed by the act as ten years’ practice prior to its approval. (Act of February 23, 1874, Gen. Stats., ed. of 1887, p. 1006; Amendment of April 25, 1888, Acts 1887-8, vol. 1, p. 97.) Statutes should be construed not according to the letter, but according to the spirit and meaning. (Bailie v. Commonwealth, 11 Bush, 688; Williams v. Commonwealth, 78 Ky., 93; Fulton v. Short Route Railway Transfer…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LEWIS
DELIVERED THE OPINION OR THE COTJET.
Appellant brought this action to recover of appelleedamages for uttering and publishing concerning him, about July 1,1890, the following words : “Have nothing to do with him, he is no doctor, nothing but a traveling quack, kn'ows nothing about medicine and but little-about anything else.” There is also stated, or attempted to be stated, in the petition, a cause of action for libel on account of alleged printing and publishing in a newspaper substantially the same words.
A motion was made by appellee requiring appellant to elect which cause of…
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