· 7/17/1989
Estate of David v. Snelson
Citations
- 776 P.2d 813
- 13 Brief Times Rptr. 869
- 1989 Colo. LEXIS 250
- 1989 WL 77535
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- noting that the General Assembly had “expressly repudiated” the last– antecedent rule and choosing instead to apply the series–qualifier canon
- “When a referential or qualifying clause follows several words or phrases and is applicable as much to the first word or phrase as to the others in the list, . . . the clause should be applied to all of the words or phrases that preceded it.”
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Judges: Yollack, Erickson
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