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

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · May 26, 1953 · 208 Okla. 514

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## Case

- **Full name:** DOBBS v. BOARD OF COUNTY COM’RS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** May 26, 1953
- **Citations:** 208 Okla. 514; 257 P.2d 802; 1953 OK 159; 1953 Okla. LEXIS 827
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Davison
- **Judges:** Halley, Johnson, Welch, Davison, Arnold, Williams, Corn, O'Neal, Blackbird
- **Cited by:** 25 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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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