Bibb County v. Hancock

How courts have described this case

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• the words of a statute are always to be construed in connection with their context
• the words of a statute are always to be construed in connection with their context
• counties and municipal corporations “are not persons as against the State within 15 the meaning of the constitutional provision guaranteeing due process to all persons”
• “Neither counties nor municipal corporations . . . [are] persons as against the State within the meaning of the constitutional provision guaranteeing due process to all persons.”
• “the words of a statute are always to be construed in connection with their context, and the intention of the legislature is to be gathered from the statute as a whole so as to give effect to all of its parts, if possible”
• codifying Ga. L. 1974, pp. 352, 354

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).