Cover v. Craemer

How courts have described this case

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• declining to change the meaning of a statute decided almost sixty years previously because the construction “has evidently met the approval of each successive legislature”
• construction given to a statute in a case decided sixty years earlier “has evidently met with the approval of each successive legislature, and under such circumstances we should not change it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).