New York Court of Appeals
The People Ex Rel . Bartlett v. . the Medical Society of the County of Erie.
March 5, 186532 N.Y. 187
Summary
The Court affirmed the mandamus ordering the Erie County Medical Society to admit the relator, holding that a licensed physician with the requisite qualifications cannot be excluded for non‑observance of the society's code of ethics before membership, and that the society lacks common‑law power to expel a non‑member on such antecedent conduct.