Wright v. State Board of Engineering Examiners

McCORMICK, Justice.

The trial court sustained a certiorari challenge to the revocation of plaintiff’s registration as a professional engineer by defendant state board of engineering examiners. The determinative questions on appeal are whether the trial court erred in interpreting the statutory grounds of revocation and in holding the revocation was unsupported by substantial evidence. We reverse.

Registration of professional engineers and land surveyors in Iowa is regulated in Code chapter 114. At all times material here plaintiff Earl Otis Wright was a registered professional engineer. In 1972…