Messner

Messner v. Board of Dental Examiners

Good Law
1927 Cal. App. LEXIS 127·87 Cal. App. 199·262 P. 58
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaNovember 30, 1927Docket No. 3343.California1,920 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Finch, J.

This is an original application for a writ of review by which petitioner seeks to have annulled an order of respondent Board, hereinafter referred to as respondent, suspending his license to practice dentistry for a period of ten years.

The accusation upon which he was tried alleges that on or about March 25, 1927, he “did wilfully and unlawfully aid and abet an unlicensed person, to-wit: W. M. Cohn, to practice dentistry, ... in that the said Karl W. Messner did then and there practice dentistry in an office managed and conducted by the said W. M. Cohn,- that the said Karl W. Messner at this said time well knew that the said office was a place where dental operations were performed and . . . that the said W. M. Cohn was the manager thereof and that the said W. M. Cohn was participating in the profits with Ralph Mitchell and others as the proprietor thereof.”

One of respondent’s inspectors testified that on March 26, 1927, he visited the office “conducted by Dr. Ralph Mitchell and known as ‘Dr. Mitchell and Associated Dentists,’ at 706 South Broadway in the city of Los Angeles”; that a woman at the information desk informed him that Cohn was manager, but that both Mitchell and…

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