Bergner v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• complaint charged “the defendant . . . with negligence and with creating and maintaining a nuisance”
• “It is a cardinal rule of statutory construction that courts must presume that legislatures do not intend to enact useless legislation. ... It would be utterly useless and meaningless to permit a suit which could not end otherwise than in a judgment for the defendant.” [Citation omitted.]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).