Finks v. Maine State Highway Commission

How courts have described this case

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• “In the construction of a statute, nothing should be treated as surplusage, if a reasonable interpretation supplying meaning and force is possible”
• Legislature is presumed to have in mind previous decisions of this Court when enacting statutes
• “Every statute must be construed in connection with the whole system of which it forms a part and all legislation on the same subject matter must be viewed in its overall entirety in order to reach a harmonious result which we presume the Legislature intended.”
• \Every statute must be construed in connection with the whole system of which it forms a part and all legislation on the same subject matter must be viewed in its overall entirety in order to reach a harmonious result which we presume the Legislature intended.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).