Vincent v. Foss & Crabtree, Inc.

(dissenting in part).—On this rehearing, certain State and Federal statutes are brought to our attention by appellee which were not so brought on the original hearing, and which have convinced me that my original opinion should in some respects be modified and the judgment of the lower court should be affirmed instead of reversed. Of course, all persons, including judges, are presumed to know all the general statutes of their own State and those of the Federal government, but this presumption, which is one of those convenient fictions of the law which we have inherited from earlier days when…