Chemical Electric Light & Power Co. v. Howard

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• explaining that evidence that a qualifying phrase is supposed to apply to all antecedents instead of only to the immediately preceding one may be found in the fact that it is separated from the antecedents by a comma
• “In the construction of statutes the general rule is that a limiting clause is to be restrained to the last antecedent, unless the subject-matter requires a different construction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).