State ex rel. North & South Railway Co. v. Meier

(dissenting). — The theory of our government, both state and national, is, that the three co-ordinate branches thereof, viz., the judicial, legislative and executive, are supreme within their respective constitutional limits. In practice this is only true in a measure, for the courts may declare a law to be unconstitutional or set it aside because in its passage the requirements of the organic law were not observed. But this is the limit of the jurisdiction as to matters pertaining to the legislative branch of the government. Hence, in my opinion, it is without the jurisdiction of the court…