Shepherd v. San Jacinto Junior College District

It is cases such as this that make a judge wish, for the moment. at least, that ours were courts of men and not of law; that make a judge wish — if I may borrow language from the majority opinion — -that he could lay aside what he regards as sound principles of law and decide the case on “the practicabilities of a situation.” But. intellectual integrity ought to be the individual judge’s most compelling force;, and when in his honest judgment sound, rules of law are sacrificed to practicability and expediency, failure to protest is dereliction of duty.

In Williams v. White, 223 S.W.2d 278…