Court Opinion

ID: 9825852
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 14:10:17.28023+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:24:29.258172
License: Public Domain

MoF addin, J. (aon cur ring). I concur in the result reached by the majority in this case, for the sole reason that the case of Missouri Pacific R. R. Co. v. Fuqua, 150 Ark. 145, 233 S. W. 926, is directly in point and ruling here; and we must either reverse the case at bar or overrule the Fuqua case. If the question here presented were a matter of first impression by this court, I would hold that the receiver of the parcel could not limit his liability for his own negligence. But the Fuqua case held otherwise. It was decided in 1921, and has thus been the rule in Arkansas for 23 years. Eleven sessions of the General Assembly have had ample opportunity to enact a law changing the rule in the Fuqua case; but no legislature has done so. It is not for courts to legislate. If we should overrule the Fuqua case, we would be, in effect, legislating into existence a liability that we held in the Fuqua case to be nonexistent. I am not willing to overrule the Fuqua case; so 1 concur in the result réached by the majority.