Court Opinion

ID: 9684755
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 14:10:42.668937+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:59.359742
License: Public Domain

FISH, Justice,
concurring.
Although I am in agreement with the court’s result, I cannot subscribe to the statements in the majority opinion that art. 2031b, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. (Vernon 1964) must be strictly construed because it is in derogation of the common law. This court is not free, in my view, to ignore the clearly expressed will of the legislature in art. 10(8), Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. (Vernon 1969):
8. The rule of the common law that statutes in derogation thereof shall be strictly construed shall have no application to the Revised Statutes; but the said statutes shall constitute the law of this State respecting the subjects to which they relate; and the provisions thereof shall be liberally construed with a view to effect their objects and to promote justice.
Accordingly, I respectfully disagree with that part of the majority opinion. ■