Legal Opinion · Dissent
Garrett Freightlines v. Montana Rail. & Ps Com'n
Montana Supreme Court
Decided March 14, 1973No. 12246Published
1Dissent
MR. JUSTICE DALY and JOHN C. HARRISON,
(dissenting) :
We respectfully dissent, having in mind the burden that must be carried by a plaintiff when he launches a constitutional attack on a statute enacted by the Montana legislature as approved in Great Northern Utilities Co. v. Public Service Commission, 88 Mont. 180, 220, 293 P. 294, 304, in this language:
“ ‘In the ease of statutes passed by the legislative assembly and assailed as unconstitutional, the question is not whether it is possible to condemn, but whether it is possible to uphold. We stand committed to the rule that a statute will not…
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