Auditor General v. Board of Supervisors

I concur in the result reached by Mr. Justice McGrath in this case, but desire to add this in relation to the verity of the journals of the Leislature.

There is no court in the United States that has ever held that parol proof could be introduced to alter or contradict the record of the legislature as made by its journals. Such a ruling would put the validity of the passage of every law in issue, and its determination would be a question of fact to be settled upon verbal proof by a jury. I venture the assertion that no such decision will ever be made by any reputable court, unless the demands…