Board of County Commissioners v. Woodward

Citations

• 73 Kan. 238
• 84 P. 1028
• 1906 Kan. LEXIS 235

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Statutory Construction — Prospective or Retrospective Operation. Generally, a statute will be.construed as applying to conditions that may arise in the future. An act will not be given a retrospective operation unless the intention of the legislature that it shall so operate is unequivocally expressed.</p> <p>2. Jurisdiction — Settlement of a Case-made. Section 4 of chapter S20 of the Laws of 1905 is prospective, and not retrospective, in its operation, and confers no power upon a trial judge who had, prior to the passage of the act, lost jurisdiction to settle a case-made.</p>