State Ex Rel. Dean v. Daues

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

Respondents urge, in their motion for a rehearing of this certiorari proceeding, that the construction given by this court, in Home Insurance Co. v. Wickham, 281 Mo. 300, to the several sections of the Administration Law, or statute, asObiter amended by the General Assembly in 1911, andDictum. particularly the construction given to Section 195, Revised Statutes 1909, as amended in 1911 (now Sec. 186, R.S. 1919), is obiter dictum, and was unnecessary to a decision of that cause; hence, it is insisted that respondents were not bound to follow the construction given to…