Nelson v. Timberline International, Inc.

Annabelle Clinton Imber, Justice.,

dissenting. There are two fundamental principles of statutory construction that prevent me from joining the majority. The first, as the majority acknowledges, is that statutes and constitutions:

should receive a consistent and uniform interpretation so that they shall not be taken to mean one thing at one time, and a different thing at another time. Certainly, when a constitutional provision or a statute has been construed, and that construction consistently followed for many years, such construction should not be changed.

Morris v. McLemore, 313 Ark. 53, 852…