Court Opinion

ID: 9686851
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 16:09:15.330688+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:22.420454
License: Public Domain

Boslaugh, J.,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent from the holding of the majority in this case.
I do not agree that all contracts which were made in conformity with an act of the Legislature that is subsequently declared invalid are, also, necessarily invalid. *775If, as this court has said, an unconstitutional act is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed, and the court cannot grant relief based upon it, the act should not be effective to invalidate contracts which were made in conformity with it.
It seems to me that the validity of such contracts should be determined by the application of the law as it existed prior to the enactment of the invalid statute.