Freeman v. Cangany’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““While this court is always reluctant to dispose of an appeal without passing upon the questions which the parties desire to have adjudicated, it is, nevertheless, imperative that there be a good-faith and substantial compliance with those rules of procedure which long experience has demonstrated are essential to the orderly administration of justice. To relax these rules in the instant case would be to establish a precedent logically leading to their ultimate abandonment. This we cannot afford to do.” (My emphasis).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 119 Ind. App. 184 - Bromley v. City of Indianapolis