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Show GHIRGS DENIED TRIALBY JURY Supreme Court Upholds Agee's Decision; McCune Cites Tennessee Ruling Severul Ogdn chiropractors are enjoined en-joined from diagnosing, treating, or operating upon any person within the state, afflicted with any mental or physical ailment and from advising any such person so afflicted in consideration con-sideration of any pecuniary compensation compensa-tion or reward. In a decision rendered yesterday by the supreme court of I'tah. Tho decision sustained the Judgment of former Judge A. W. Agec of the second Judicial court here. The original ctc was that of the medical examiners of the state against A. F. Blair, who. it Set forth, had no license, to prat Llfie medicine within tho state boundaries. w vr JURY T it i i . In the original case before the district dis-trict urt, tfhe defendant, A K. Blair, denied that he wa practicing medicine, medi-cine, but admitted that' he had no licence. Judgment was entered against him by the district court and lie appealed. ap-pealed. His contentions ln asking for the appeal are that he was denied the right to trial by Jury, that the evidence evi-dence did not .--upport the allegations of tho complaint and that the so-called medical a t is unconstitutional and also conflicts with other statutes The supreme court holds that the district court was right in enjoining Blair. U goes into considerable length In the .! i :mn, setting forth that if the chiropractor does tint like the laws in regurd to who shall practice medicine medi-cine ho should direct Ins arguments to tho legislature. it Is explained ltv.it the law requiring a license for the practice of medicine la not for the protection pro-tection of the medical fraternity, but for I ho protec tion f the public. Appeals were also taken in three i.:her defendants, namely, Clarence H Johnson. I. J. IfoKclI and Ross H. McCune. Mc-Cune. It was stipulated that the judgment entered ln this case should bo applicable to the other defendants named and such was the order. lot H McCune of Ugden, president Of tho T'tuh Chiropractors association, declared that the chiropractors Rre seeking legislation favorable to them, as suggested In the supreme court decision, de-cision, and n bill Is now before the legislature In which authority Is sought by the chiropractors to practice in Utah. Dr. McCune said that the Tennessee Tennes-see supreme court ruled, ln a decision on chiropractic, that "an innocent business, bus-iness, however; cannot be prohibited under Hu ulso of regulation. Our statutes, therefore, if they may be said i" prohibit the practice of chiropractic, chir-opractic, are Invalid to this extent-" ELL DEVJELOI'ISD. In another section the Justice writes. "The court thinks that chiropractic cannot be classed along with charlatans charla-tans and fakirs. This science of healing heal-ing Is well developed and recognized in many jurisdictions and many believe In Its efficiency. It i s not suggested on the record that the practice of the science is in fcrij way deleterious to the human body. ' iir statutes undertake to provide that no one shall practice any healing irt until he has been examined by our various boards and duly licensed. As i condition to obtaining license the applicant ap-plicant must pursue u course of study covering many subjects. Chiropractors Chiroprac-tors have no occasion to apply much t this learning. The court Is of the opinion that since their treatments are not shown to be Injurious to anybody they do not give medicine, operate jr subject the body to Injurious manipulation ma-nipulation the requirement that the study and be examined on subjects ln no way pertaining to their occupation la an arbitrary and unreasonable at-Lempt at-Lempt to restrict ihelr liberties and '.he liberty of tho people who wish to patronize pat-ronize them. Such regulation has no reasonable tendency to promote the public safety and welfare." uo The permanent snow fields of Alaska Alas-ka are less than one per cent of Abcska's totxtl area. |