Government Personnel Mutual Life Insurance v. Wear

How courts have described this case

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• holding that duty of courts is to construe a statute from the language used therein if possible
• holding that duty of courts is to construe a statute from the language used therein if possible
• holding that duty of courts is to construe a statute from the language used therein if possible
• “the duty of courts [is] to construe a law as written . . . and not look for extraneous reasons to be used as a basis for reading into a law an intention not expressed nor intended to be expressed therein.”
• statutes are presumed to operate prospectively

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).