State Ex Rel. Davis v. Johns

(dissenting)—I yield ready concurrence to that portion of the majority opinion which holds that this court has previously decided that the governor has power summarily to remove, without notice or a hearing, all state officers appointed by him not liable to impeachment (of which a regent of the state university is one), and that therefore the questions presented by relator, which seek to modify or change the law there announced, should be deemed to be settled. It is not wise to unsettle the law of the state nor the construction of its statutes.

But I find myself wholly unable to agree with the…