Southern Canal Co. v. State Board of Water Engineers

How courts have described this case

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• providing that a de novo trial is a full trial on the facts as well as the law
• striking down statute allowing court to determine the public good by preponderance of the evidence
• courts cannot conduct both trial de novo and trial under the substantial evidence rule, or even a hybrid type of trial, in the same suit
• substantial evidence review is \a review of the reasonableness of the Board's order and directly negat[es] any idea that the Board's order is vacated or nullified by the filing of the suit\
• substantial evidence review is “a review of the reasonableness of the Board’s order and directly negat[es] any idea that the Board’s order is vacated or nullified by the filing of the suit”
• “The administration of laws belongs to the executive branch of government.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).