Farmers & Merchants Bank v. Director of Revenue

How courts have described this case

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• construing only one statute and not requiring reference to any other provision within the same act
• construing only one statute and not requiring reference to any other provision within the same act
• construing only one statute and not requiring reference to any other provision within the same act
• “[S]tatutes directing the performance of an act by a public official within a specified time are directory, not mandatory.”
• without de termining whether statute was “mandatory or directive,” court stated that mandamus would lie to compel enforcement
• “where the legislature fails to include a sanction for failure to do that which ‘shall’ be done,” courts are not free to impose one

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).