Christie v. Fane Steamship Co.

How courts have described this case

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• invalidating entire statute even though the statute contained a severability provision
• invalidating entire statute even though the statute contained a severability provision
• “[T]the word ‘may should be read ‘must’ when the intention so requires[.]”
• \[T]the word `may' should be read `must' when the intention so requires[.]\
• “[U]nder Section 1 of Article XII of the West Virginia Constitution, there is an absolute and mandatory duty on the part of the Legislature to ‘provide, by general law, for a thorough and efficient system of free schools[.]’”

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