Reeves & Co. v. Russell
North Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe District Court of Stutsman County, Tbe statute as applied by tbe trial court is a retroactive law, impairing the obligations of a contract. Walker, Am. Law, pp. 217-222; Yeatman v. King, 2 N. D. 421, 33 Am. St. Rep. 797, 51 N. W. 728. Acts creating liens cannot be construed retroactively, because they would defeat vested rights. 8 Cyc. 900; National Rank v. Jones, 181 Okla. 560, 12 L.R.A.(N.S.) 310, 91 Pac. 191, 11 Ann.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe District Court of Stutsman County, Tbe statute as applied by tbe trial court is a retroactive law, impairing the obligations of a contract. Walker, Am. Law, pp. 217-222; Yeatman v. King, 2 N. D. 421, 33 Am. St. Rep. 797, 51 N. W. 728. Acts creating liens cannot be construed retroactively, because they would defeat vested rights. 8 Cyc. 900; National Rank v. Jones, 181 Okla. 560, 12 L.R.A.(N.S.) 310, 91 Pac. 191, 11 Ann. Cas. 1041;. Toledo, D. & P. R. Co. v. Hamilton, 134 U. S. 296, 33 L. ed. 905, 10' Sup. Ct. Rep. 546; Crowther v. Fidelity Ins. Trust & S. D. Co.…
1Opinion
On Petition for Rehearing.
Goss, J.
Appellants filed a petition for rehearing, challenging as judicial legislation consideration by the court of the common law priority of this common-law artisan’s lien, and maintaining that because of § 6295, Rev. Codes 1905, in terms recognizing an artisan’s lien but silent on its priority, the court must find that no priority of such lien can exist, and that any priority must be given by statute under § 6138, Rev. *275Codes 1905, the general statute concerning priority of liens, providing that, “other things being equal, different liens upon the same property…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Lux v. HagginCalifornia Supreme Court · 1886
- Sharon v. SharonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1888
- Chicago & Erie Railroad v. LuddingtonIndiana Supreme Court · 1910
- Baum v. ThomsIndiana Supreme Court · 1898
- Harper v. Building Ass'nWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1904
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