Valentine v. Redford Township Supervisor

Forty years ago Mr. Justice Wiest, in Koeper v. Detroit Street Railway Commission, 222 Mich 464, 487, observed that veterans’ preference acts “have always been accorded tender consideration by the courts.” However appropriate such consideration may be in legislative halls and while we may take judicial notice of its exercise there, in the performance of our own judicial function when called upon to measure the continuing vitality of such an act by standards universally applicable, we should not let slip Justitia’s blindfold.

We have before us 2 allegedly inconsistent statutes. If indeed…