Legal Opinion · Dissent

General Electric Co. v. A. Dandy Appliance Co.

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided April 11, 1958No. CC841Published

1DissentGiven, Judge

Since the majority decides that the title to the Act in question was insufficient, it necessarily follows that the *505Act was void from its supposed beginning. That being true, the Act was never of any force, and could not have actually violated or affected any constitutional or other right of any person. Nevertheless, the majority proceeds, in violation of universally recognized rules relating to the duties of courts in regard to adjudging solemn Acts of Legislatures void, to decide constitutional questions. The sufficiency iof the title to the Act was logically the first question to have been…

2Cases cited50 opinions

  1. Jacobson v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
  2. Crowley v. ChristensenSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  3. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. McGuireSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
  4. Old Dearborn Distributing Co. v. Seagram-Distillers Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1936
  5. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. City of GoldsboroSupreme Court of the United States · 1914

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