Peck

Dr. Peek has filed herein his petition for writ of habeas corpus. An order to show cause issued and the respondent filed his return; the traverse thereto was filed by Dr. Peck.

The hearing on the order to show cause entailed the taking of testimony, as well as the introduction of documentary proof.

The Court finds the following facts, to-wit:

Petitioner, Dr. Robert M. Peck, is a medical doctor duly and regularly admitted to practice medicine in the States of California, Illinois and Kentucky. Petitioner’s education for his profession consisted of the following: three years of undergraduate work at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; four years of medical school training at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California; one year of internship at Los Angeles County General Hospital, Los Angeles, California; eighteen months of residency in internal medicine at the University of Chicago Clinic, Chicago, Illinois. During said training petitioner expended substantial sums for tuition and other necessary expenses incurred in his medical education. As a result of this expenditure of time, energy and funds on the part of…