Court Opinion

ID: 9509696
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:48:50.451764+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:52.007615
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE HUNT
dissenting.
I dissent.
Even a casual reading of the majority and dissenting opinions filed in this case reveals that there is little left to be said by way of analysis of the law or its application to the facts of this case, and this dissent will not add to those arguments. I have only to say that this Court can and should, in fairness, law, and equity, recognize the contract that existed between the State and Retired Justice Gulbrandson who performed his part of the agreement in full by paying his share of the premium into the retirement fund and serving as judge and justice in the Montana judicial system for nearly 30 years. I do not see how we can do otherwise.