City of Sioux City v. Young

(concurring specially) — I am satisfied that the legislature by chapter 200, Acts of the Fifty-seventh General Assembly, amending section 410.10, Code of 1954, did not in fact create any new rights or modify the applicable law, that it did no more than invade the court’s judicial function of construing the enacted statutes, and since the action was between the same parties, involving the same facts and same law, the prior judgment was res judicata. I am unwilling to conclude that the legislature could not, by proper enactment, extend to Joseph E. Young and anyone in like situations the right…