Court Opinion

ID: 9688618
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 17:58:35.008992+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:40.642275
License: Public Domain

RUDOLPH, J.,
(dissenting). Following our decision in the case of Raymond v. Barnard, 71 S.D. 630, 28 N.W.2d 700, the legislature enacted a single exception to the rule provided by SDC 33.0203. Ch. 127, Laws 1949. The majority opinion now writes into the statute another exception. It is my view that such action usurps the legislative function: “* * * * where express exceptions are made, the legal presumption is that the legislature did not intend to save other cases from the operation of the statute. In such case, the inference is a strong one that no other exceptions were intended, and the rule generally applied is that an exception in a statute applied is that an exception in a statute amounts to an affirmation of the application of its provisions to all other cases not excepted, * * 50 Am. Jur., Statutes, § 434.