Court Opinion

ID: 9688887
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 18:10:44.22197+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:42.855843
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Gillespie, J.,
concurring:
In view of tbe majority holdings in Shivers v. Biloxi-Gulfport Daily Herald, 236 Miss. 303, 110 So. 2d 359, and Central Electric Power Association v. Hicks, 236 Miss. 378, 110 So. 2d 351, 112 So. 2d 230, I concur.
*513ON SUGGESTION OF ERROR
McGehee, C. J.
The employee, Claude C. Neal, departed this life on February 24, 1958 while employed by the Mississippi Highway Patrol.
On April 23, 1960 the legislature amended the Workmen's Compensation Act so as to require a fair interpretation of the provisions of the act instead of the liberal interpretation which the Court had theretofore been giving to the act under Sec. 22 of Chapter 354, Laws of 1958, as amended.
The opinion rendered in this cause on November 7, 1960 cited some cases which were decided prior to the passage of the 1960 act. The suggestion of error herein makes the point that those cases were not applicable to the 1960 act for the reason that they were decided under the old law. However, the 1960 act expressly provides that it shall take effect from and after its passage. There is nothing contained therein that indicates that the legislature intended for the same to he retroactive as to injuries sustained prior thereto.
The Court is of the opinion that the new act deals with a substantive right of the employee instead of an adjective right.
We have carefully examined and studied the suggestion of error and brief thereon and the Court has concluded that the same should he overruled.
Suggestion of error overruled.
Arrington, Ethridge, Gillespie, and McElroy, JJ., concur.