Bunker Hill Co. v. State ex rel. State Tax Commission

The Court does a very unusual thing when, after refusing to consider the petition for rehearing and allowing the parties an opportunity to argue their respective positions, the Court addresses arguments *463raised in Bunker Hill’s petition for rehearing. The Court should either grant the petition for rehearing and allow the parties an opportunity to argue their respective positions, or strike all references to arguments made in that petition from this opinion.

That problem aside, my primary objection to the opinion of the Court is that it completely overlooks this Court’s appellate function. This…