City of Jesup v. Bennett

How courts have described this case

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

• holding courts should “refrain from ascribing to the legislature a wholly unreasonable intention or an intention to do a futile and useless thing”
• “[w]here the language of an Act is plain and unequivocal, judicial construction is not only unnecessary but is forbidden. [Cit.]”
• cardinal rule of construction is to ascertain intent of the legislature

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).