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WESSELINK v. STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

No. 49107.

80 N.W.2d 484 (1957)

Dr. A. H. WESSELINK, Dr. James E. Slocum, Dr. W. E. Borgerson, Dr. Raymond Deming, Dr. Leo Boyce, Dr. Carl Hoveland, Dr. J. F. Walsh and the Iowa Chiropractors' Association, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, and Dr. Edmund G. Zimmerer, Commissioner of Public Health and head of the State Department of Health, Defendants-Appellees, Iowa State Medical Society, and Iowa Society of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, Intervenors-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied March 8, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max Putnam, Des Moines, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Dayton Countryman, Atty. Gen., and Leonard C. Abels, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendants-appellees.

Lehmann, Hurlburt, Blanchard & Cless, Des Moines, for intervenor-appellee Iowa State Medical Society.

Herman W. Walter, Des Moines, for intervenor-appellee Iowa Society of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons.

LARSON, Justice.

Plaintiffs, as individuals licensed to practice chiropractic, in their own behalf and on behalf of all licensed chiropractors in Iowa, brought this action for declaratory judgment in two counts against the defendants, the State Department of Health and the Commissioner of Public Health. The pleadings set out particular allegations of fact, rights, contentions and prayers which were substantially the same in each count. Plaintiffs, among other things...

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