Court Opinion

ID: 9563881
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 18:49:07.879828+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:06.859244
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HALLEY, Justice
(dissenting).
I think that since we are overruling City of Kingfisher v. Altizer, 13 Okl. 121, 74 P. 107, and holding in so many words that from now on the defendants shall be permitted to examine a plaintiff in a personal injury action before or during trial that this case should be reversed for a new trial. The majority opinion says it is now error not to allow the physical examination. It was error when this case was tried below because the overruling of a decision is generally retrospective. I quote from 21 C.J. *250S. Courts § 194, which I think is applicable here:
“The overruling of a decision generally is retrospective and makes the law at the time of the overruled decision as it is declared to be in the last decision. The overruled decision as a precedent is thereby destroyed, but it remains the law of the particular case in which it was rendered.”
I dissent.