National Construction Co. v. Holt

Plaintiffs application to the defendant Board for a Funeral Directors license was denied on the ground that she had not taken a one year course at an approved or accredited school of mortuary science as required by 1957 Supp. C.R.S. 61-3-8. She thereupon filed the described action. The evidence disclosed that plaintiff had been engaged in the mortuary business in Colorado, as co-owner with her husband of the Bullock Mortuary in Englewood, since August 1951 when the Bullock Mortuary was first opened; that the Bullock Mortuary is a valuable and profitable business, worth in the opinion of the plaintiff upwards of one hundred thousand dollars. From 1951 to the time of trial plaintiff had handled the management and supervision of the business in the absence of her husband, Z. Realph Bullock, who was shown to be a Colorado licensed funeral director and embalmer, although plaintiff herself has never been so licensed.