People v. Quimby

People ex rel. Callaway v. De Guelle, 47 Colo. 13, 105 Pac. 1110 — doctrinally approved in Gibbs v. People, 66 Colo. 414, 182 Pac. 895 • — constitutes an amendment of Article XIV, Section 9 of the Constitution of this state by judicial act, and hence should be accepted for what it is: a usurpation by the judiciary of a power solely and wholly reserved in the people. I, therefore, respectfully but vigorously refuse to follow a-precedent which, after study, should be gracefully acknowledged by us *238to have been a judicial mistake, and therefore to have attained no greater stature than being res…