Green v. Dunkin

(dissenting) — I dissent. By a subtle process of juridical levitation, the majority has raised a minor and inconsequential section of a statute to the grandeur one expects only of a bill of rights. Every section and provision of the statute here and in the companion case of Nelson v. Dunkin, ante p. 726, 419 P.2d 984 (1966), 'has been given equal weight and each construed as though it were a fundamental charter of liberty.

The 6 months’ residence statement seems of only trifling consequence to me and I would attach no greater weight or importance to it than the statute requires. Accordingly,…