Autio v. Proksch Construction Co.

My views respecting this now really contagious business of judicial amendment of statutes, effected by retroactively effective overrulements of long standing, steadily accepted and unanimously mature interpretations and applications thereof, came to extended spread upon our record when Burns v. Van Laan, 367 Mich 485; Harris v. City of Detroit, 367 Mich 526; and Halfacre v. Paragon Bridge & Steel Co., 368 Mich 366, were handed down in 1962.1

Since then the key vote of restraint, provided by Chief Justice Carr in matters of proposed overrulement, is no longer here. In the resultant…