Case Name: IN THE MATTER OF SOLOMON SIBLEY AND CHRISTIAN HOFFMAN, EXECUTORS OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF GEORGE HOFFMAN, DECEASED
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1810-05-24
Citations: 1 Blume Sup. Ct. Trans. 329
Docket Number: No. 232
Parties: IN THE MATTER OF SOLOMON SIBLEY AND CHRISTIAN HOFFMAN, EXECUTORS OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF GEORGE HOFFMAN, DECEASED
Judges: 
Reporter: Transactions of the Supreme Court of the territory of Michigan
Volume: 1
Pages: 329–330

Head Matter:
No. 232
IN THE MATTER OF SOLOMON SIBLEY AND CHRISTIAN HOFFMAN, EXECUTORS OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF GEORGE HOFFMAN, DECEASED
May 24, 1810

Opinion:
OPINION BY
WOODWARD, C. J.
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1. This court having held that the governor has no power to sign a bill in order to make it a law where less than a majority of the whole number of governor and judges consent to his signing it for that purpose, the district judges are bound by the decision.
2. In view of the principle of separation of powers, the executive magistrate has no power to reverse a decision of this court or to declare it void.
3. Bills signed by less than three of the governor and judges are not laws, and absence of disapprobation by Congress cannot be deemed to be a species of negative approbation.