Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Sheppard v. Michigan National Bank

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided June 10, 1957No. Docket 68, Calendar 46,732Published

1ConcurrenceSmith, J.

We continue to pursue our melancholy way in these compensation cases, the Court dividing and re-dividing with monotonous regularity. as the egregious errors of the past continue to war with the humanitarian objectives of the act we must construe. Our “eminence” in these cases, as Dean Pound so cogently observed (see. Mr. Justice Black in Mack v. Reo Motors, Inc., 345 Mich 268, 281), is bad indeed. It will remain bad, and our people will continue to know a sorrow and disr .tress peculiar to them alone, until our Court forsakes its “stubborn” (I borrow the word from the Chief Justice) refusal,…

2Cases cited29 opinions

  1. Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. United States v. American Trucking AssociationsSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
  3. United States Mutual Accident Ass'n v. BarrySupreme Court of the United States · 1889
  4. Girouard v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  5. Ellison v. Georgia RailroadSupreme Court of Georgia · 1891

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