City of San Antonio by and Through the San Antonio Water System v. Campbellton Road, LTD

How courts have described this case

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• stating that construction that would lead to absurd and unreasonable conclusion should not be adopted where language is fairly susceptible to con struction leading to logical and sensible result
• reading of statute that leads to absurd result not adopted where language lends itself to sensible interpretation
• construction of ordinance that would lead to absurd and unreasonable conclusion should not be adopted where language is fairly susceptible to construction that would lead to logical and sensible result
• where construction of statute would lead to absurd and unreasonable conclusion, such a construction should not be adopted if language is fairly susceptible of a construction leading to a logical and reasonable result
• using traditional rule of construction to interpret municipal ordinance
• “A literal construction of statutory language will not be adopted when such a construction will lead to an absurd and unreasonable conclusion, and the language to be construed ‘is fairly susceptible to a construction that would lead to a logical and sensible result’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).