# Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Spaeth

> Supreme Court of Minnesota · October 20, 1950 · 232 Minn. 128

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7982231

## Case

- **Full name:** Western Union Telegraph Company v. G. Howard Spaeth. [Fn1]
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Minnesota
- **Decided:** October 20, 1950
- **Citations:** 232 Minn. 128; 44 N.W.2d 440; 1950 Minn. LEXIS 736
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Magney
- **Judges:** Christianson, Magnet
- **Cited by:** 34 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that “reenactment of a statute without change, after construction * * ⅜. by the court, presumptively constitutes an adoption of such construction”
- stating that the “judicial construction of a statute, so long as it is unreversed, is as much a part thereof as if it had been written into it originally”
- stating “reenactment of a statute without change, after construction of the statute by [the supreme court], presumptively constitutes an adoption of such construction”

## Opinion text

Magnet, Justice
(concurring).
I still adhere to the view expressed in the dissenting opinion in The Pullman Co. v. Commr. of Taxation, 223 Minn. 96 , 25 N. W. (2d) 838 . However, for reasons set out in the last paragraph of the above opinion, I reluctantly concur.

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