distinguishing a discretionary act from a ministerial act
How later courts described this case
- distinguishing a discretionary act from a ministerial act
- “The Constitution fixes limits to the exercise of legislative authority, and prescribes the orbit within which it must move”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
P. Brown, J.,
concurs in paragraph three of the syllabus and in so much of the judgment as declares each of these laws constitutionally invalid.
Celebrezze,. J., dissents.