In Re the Attorney Fees of Meizlish

There are occasions — • few I concede — when the dominant opinion of a multi-judge court may and should be shorn of credit by careful rather than casual analysis of the very authorities which the Brethren of greater number cite as governing. This is such a case.

When the instant application for leave came to consideration and ultimate grant (September 22, 1970, 384 Mich 752), I informed the other Justices by memorandum of my view that State v Rush, 46 NJ 399; 217 A2d 441; 21 ALR3d 804 (1966) was not for our state persuasively controlling of the constitutional questions decided there. In…