State Ex Rel. Attorney General v. Anderson-Tully Co.

I do not agree with the majority in holding that act 281 of the Acts of 1931 is retroactive. The majority opinion holds that it was the intention to accomplish two things: first, to prevent the bringing of any new proceedings; second, to prevent the further prosecution of any proceedings which may have 'been pending at the effective date of the act, except under the terms of the act.

I think if the Legislature had intended that the act should be retroactive, it would have said so in so many words, and I think that the expression of the Legislature, “no proceedings shall hereafter be brought or…