City of Mt. Vernon v. Satterfield

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a statute abrogates a common law principle by necessary implication when the principle “is so repugnant to and inconsistent with the statute that both cannot stand” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• \statute is not to be interpreted as effecting a material change in or a repeal of the common law unless the intent to do so is clearly expressed\ [quotation omitted]
• statute should not be - 6 - interpreted as making material change in the common law unless intent to do so is clearly expressed, either explicitly or by necessary implication

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).