MASS. CHIROPRACTIC LAYMEN'S ASS'N v. ATTORNEY GEN.


333 Mass. 179 (1955)

130 N.E.2d 101

MASSACHUSETTS CHIROPRACTIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION, INC. & others vs. ATTORNEY GENERAL & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 4, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Silbiger, (John N. Alberti with him,) for the plaintiffs.

George Fingold, Attorney General, & Harris A. Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants, submitted a brief.

Present: QUA, C.J., RONAN, SPALDING, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


SPALDING, J.

The objectives of this bill for declaratory relief are to obtain a declaration (1) that chiropractic is not the practice of medicine; (2) that even if it is the practice of medicine, then G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 112, § 6, which forbids the practice of medicine without a license is unconstitutional as applied to chiropractors; (3) that §§ 2 to 8 of G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 112 do not regulate the practice of chiropractic in the Commonwealth; and (4...

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