Appleby v. Farmers State Bank of Dows

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• newly enacted limitation statute interpreted to apply to sheriff’s certificate held at time of enactment; no prior similar legislation had existed
• when considering whether statute had retrospective or prospective application, judicial notice taken of economic conditions and especially of land foreclosures
• the language “any sheriff’s certificate of sale” in newly enacted statute implied retrospective application to all sheriff's certificates outstanding on the date of the new legislation
• in construing statute, “ ‘[i]t is important to consider the state of the law before it was enacted, and the evil it was designed to remedy’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).