Detroit International Bridge Co. v. Commodities Export Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[W]e will not reverse a trial court if it reached the right result for an alternate reason.”
• “we will not reverse a trial court if it reached the right result for an alternate reason.”
• “[therefore, to paraphrase Justice Markman in Cameron [a Auto Club Ins Ass’n, 476 Mich 55, 80; 718 NW2d 784 (2006)], a statute need not be applied literally if no reasonable lawmaker could have conceived of the ensuing result”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).