Adams v. Spillyards

I cannot agree with the majority, either in holding that the act has no application to future contracts, or in holding that the act is unconstitutional as to existing contracts.

The one statement in the majority opinion, however, to which we may all agree is the following: "The evident purpose of the Legislature was to relieve a present condition by applying the poultice of the act to the sore spot of deficiency judgments in foreclosures of mortgages caused by decline in realty values."

While the decline in realty values was partly the cause of the sore spot, it was not the whole cause. It is a…