Court Opinion

ID: 9864458
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 13:10:47.136498+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:12:26.745047
License: Public Domain

Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice (Concurring). Even under the holding of this Court in the case of Adams v. DeWitt Special School District, 214 Ark. 771, 218 S. W. 2d 359, I think there could still be a special election in order to determine the views of the voters, as an aid to the school directors in preparing the next annual budget; but such special election would be persuasive rather than legal. Insofar as concerns the issuance of bonds on the authority of a special election, there is no sound distinction between the holding in the case of Adams v. DeWitt Special School District, sv,pra, and the holding of the majority in the case at bar. The purpose of this concurring opinion is to specifically call attention to the fact that — even though I dissented from the majority in the case of Adams v. DeWitt Special School District, supra — nevertheless, as a judge, I must accept the decision of the majority in that case as ruling in the case at bar. No finer expression can be found on this matter of subsequent yielding than the language of Mr. Justice Battle in Logan v. Eastern Arkansas Land Co., 68 Ark. 248, 57 S. W. 798, in which he followed the holding in an earlier case from which holding he had originally dissented. Here is his language: “While the rule established in Cooper v. Freeman Lumber Company, 61 Ark. 36, 31 S. W. 981, 32 S. W. 494, does not accord with the views of the writer of this opinion, it is binding upon him as a precedent until it shall be overruled. ‘Judges are not expected or required to overturn principles which have been considered and acted upon as correct, thereby disturbing contracts and property, arid involving everything in inextricable confusion, simply because some abstract’ rule of law has been incorrectly established in the outset.” In keeping with the spirit of the above quotation, I concur with the majority in the case at bar.