Court Opinion

ID: 9721725
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 09:06:47.411479+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:28.234067
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Dissenting Opinion
Jackson, J.
I disagree with the narrow interpretation of Acts 1955, ch. 42, §2, p. 87, being §63-1327 Burns’ 1961 Replacement as expressed in the majority opinion.
Generally the term hours as used academically, is defined as a class or class hour or meeting of a class, for example a class may meet three times a week for a period of -40 to 60 minutes per class, but credit is given for three hours of class work.
The units of “four thousand (4000) hours of resident attendance instruction” expressed in the Indiana Act, and the Kentucky requirement of’ “actual *568attendance of at least four thousand 45 minutes academic hours” are, in my opinion, only elastic units of time measurement equivalent to the measurement often expressed by the distaff side of the house in the phrase “in just a minute.”
The substantially equivalent requirement of Acts 1955, ch. 42, §5(b), p. 87, being §63-1330(b), Burns’ 1961 Replacement, in my opinion, does not have the effect given it by the majority opinion. The legislature, had it intended such meaning, would have used the words the same instead of the present wording of the statute. The majority opinion in effect nullifies the reciprocity provisions of the Act with those States who do not have the exact curriculum taught in Indiana.
I would reverse the judgment of the trial court.
Landis, J., concurs.
Note. — Reported in 180 N. E. 2d 533.