Opinion

Dobbs v. Board of County Com'rs of Oklahoma County

  • 208 Okla. 514
  • 257 P.2d 802
  • 1953 OK 159
  • 1953 Okla. LEXIS 827
Court
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Filed
May 26, 1953
Status
Published
Author
Davison
On the bench
Halley, Johnson, Welch, Davison, Arnold, Williams, Corn, O'Neal, Blackbird
Cited by
25 cases
Authority
More cited than 12.9%

The opinion

DAVISON, J.

(specially concurring). In my opinion the dissenting views of Mr. Justice Hefner, in the case of Nichols et al. v. Levy, 151 Okla. 245 , 1 P. 2d 766 , should.have been adopted in that case. The logic and reasoning in the Hefner dissent is, to me, unanswerable. Since the above mentioned dissent was written, several states, including Iowa and Illinois, have followed the general thought contained therein. The majority opinion in the Levy case, supra, has never been followed.

While I have always been of the opinion that we should apply the rule of stare decisis wherever possible, yet, when we find that an earlier opinion has been proven to be unsound and we are thoroughly convinced of its unsoundness, we should correct the error at the earliest possible date.

I am authorized to state that Mr. Justice WELCH concurs in the foregoing views.

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