Fidelity Building & Loan Ass'n v. Thompson

Our original opinion is found at 45 S.W. (2d) 167, and we refer thereto for a full statement of the nature and result of this case.

In our original opinion we held that section 40 of the Building and Loan Act of 1929 (Acts 41st Leg., 2d Called Sess., c. 61), as amended by the Building and Loan Act of 1930 (Acts 41st Leg., 5th Called Sess., c. 51; Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. art. 881a — 39), could not be given effect to impair contracts made prior to its effective date, because to give that statute such a construction would render it unconstitutional as in contravention of section 16 of article 1 of…