Taylor v. Auditor General

“The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones.”

By the provable mistake, made here in 1955, of having looked strictissimi through a minute peephole at one sentence of the Constitution 1 —as if that sentence, decisively by itself, had been written in granitic terms on a Babylonian tablet—, an able and faithful judicial officer is shown in this case as having suffered a grievous injustice. Nothing short of an order for rehearing of Taylor v. Auditor General, 342 Mich 265, entered on our own resolution of atonement, will accomplish the amende honorable.

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