Alderwood Water District v. Pope & Talbot, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[A] statute should be construed as a whole in order to ascertain legislative purpose, and thus avoid unlikely, strained, or absurd consequences.”
• statutory interpretation should “avoid unlikely, strained or absurd consequences which could result from a literal reading”
• “On numerous occasions this court has indicated that a statute should be construed as a whole in order to ascertain legislative purpose, and thus avoid unlikely, strained or absurd consequences . . . .” (emphasis added)
• general rule has been ‘Virtually emasculated” in Washington
• statutory interpretation should “avoid unlikely strained or absurd consequences”
• general rule has been \virtually emasculated\ in Washington

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).