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CHIROPRACTIC ASSN. OF N. Y. v. HILLEBOE

12 N.Y.2d 109 (1962)

Chiropractic Association of New York, Inc., et al., Appellants, v. Herman E. Hilleboe, as Commissioner of Health of the State of New York, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 31, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Walter Bliss for appellants.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Paxton Blair and Edward R. Murphy of counsel), for respondent.

Carl O. Olson and James E. Bunker for National Chiropractic Association, amicus curiæ.

Judges FULD, FROESSEL, BURKE and FOSTER concur with Judge VAN VOORHIS; Chief Judge DESMOND dissents in an opinion in which Judge DYE concurs.

VAN VOORHIS, J.

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