Court Opinion

ID: 9779259
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:41:47.22428+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:24.412253
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION TO REHEAR
CHATTIN, Justice.
Petitioners have filed an earnest and sincere petition to rehear. They insist we “should reconsider our opinion and consider all the grounds on which the Chancellor based his opinion.” It is their insistence the Chancellor did not base his decree on the phrase, “adequate public notice” alone, but upon a reading of the entire Act which they insist contains other vague provisions.
The Chancellor, in his memorandum opinion, stated there was no way to construe the phrase “adequate public notice except to say it means adequate public notice under the circumstances.”
“If the Court should go any further than that, it would not be a construction of the provision but a rewriting of it and thus involve the Court in legislation.
“This decision is not intended to be an exhaustive opinion on all of the points in controversy insofar as the Act is concerned, but merely to point out one of the significant reasons for this Court’s decision.”
We agreed with the Chancellor the phrase meant adequate public notice under a given set of facts or circumstances. We, also, pointed out the bill of exceptions contained only one paragraph which was of no benefit to the Court.
Whether the Act is vague in any instance depends upon the facts and circumstances surrounding the particular situation.
Finally, petitioners insist it is not clear, from our action in reversing the decree of *514the Chancellor and remanding the case for entry of a decree in accord with our opinion, whether this Court was remanding the case to the trial court for further proceedings or dismissing the case.
We certainly did not dismiss the case. If the Chancellor cares to reopen the case for further consideration, it is his prerogative to do so.
The petition is denied. Petitioners will pay the costs.
DYER, C. J., McCANLESS and FONES, JJ., and LEECH, Special Justice, concur.