Court Opinion

ID: 9695008
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 18:04:00.916242+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:07.594422
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Caporale, J.,
dissenting.
I join in that portion of Judge Grant’s dissent which declares that we ought not read into Neb. U.C.C. § 3-605 (Reissue 1980) an intent requirement which is absent from the statutory language. Indeed, we have piously pronounced that courts may not add language to the plain terms of a statute so as to either restrict or extend its meaning. See Wittler v. Baumgartner, 180 Neb. 446, 144 N.W.2d 62 (1966). The fact that courts of other jurisdictions saw fit to engage in acts of judicial legislation does not license us to do the same.