Newton v. Board of County Commissioners

Plaintiee Newton, who has a state license to practice medicine in Colorado as an osteopathic physician, for himself, and others similarly situated, brought this action against the board! of county commissioners of Weld county, Colorado, to enjoin the enforcement by the board of its general policy embodied in its adopted resolution, the purpose as well as the effect of which is to bar osteopathic physicians from practicing their profession in the two' existing county hospitals, which the board of commissioners was by statute empowered to erect and maintain for the care and treatment of…