Prudential Property & Casualty Co. v. Grimes

I must respectfully dissent from this Court’s application of Oklahoma Constitution, Art. V, § 54, in this case. The cases cited in the majority opinion in support of its result are clearly distinguishable from the circumstances of the present controversy. Those cases each dealt with situations in which the subsequent legislation found to be constitutionally invalid had attempted to detrimentally affect the remedy sought to be invoked by the proceedings begun prior to the enactment of that legislation. In the instant case the legislation now enacted does not detrimentally affect appellants’…