Conover v. Maloney

FORMAN, District Judge.

Relator was licensed to practice osteopathy in 1913. On October 16, 1935, he applied for, and there was issued to him by the respondent, a special tax stamp in the nature of a permit to dispense narcotics.

Thereafter respondent requested relator to surrender said permit on the ground that as an osteopath he was not qualified to hold such a permit. Relator thereupon surrendered the said stamp under protest and applied to this court for an order directing the respondent to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue to compel the reissuance of the permit.

Upon…