Court Opinion

ID: 9574525
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:05:43.940376+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:44:43.007688
License: Public Domain

SEAWELL, J., Concurring in Dissent.
I concur in the dissent.
The law as announced in the earlier decisions of other jurisdictions, in the absence of constitutional restrictions, is founded on a policy which appeared to be most expedient for the promotion of public welfare as conditions existed in those jurisdictions at the time said decisions were written. The development of the agricultural, industrial and commercial life of this state has been so vast and varied that, in the opinion of the legislature, it has become necessary to adopt expedient methods for the investigation and study of questions which have never before confronted the legislative body. Proper study and investigation of momentous subjects cannot be given to important matters which affect the welfare of the state and which are being pressed for solution without the adoption of the interim system. There being in our Constitution no inhibition against the continuance of the system which has existed during past years, I am of the view that we should not adopt the law as written in the decisions of other jurisdictions at distant periods of time, under wholly different conditions, and with no thought of the complex problems which are hourly calling for study and investigation by the ablest in statesmanship and the science of government. Being free so far as constitutional restraints are concerned, the legislature should be free to adopt its own policy in the transaction of its business.