Kentucky & West Virginia Power Co. v. May

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• noting that according to the doctrine of ejusdem generis and rule of noscitur a sociis, ambiguous words in list are presumed to “embrace origins of similar character or of a nature analogous to those expressly enumerated”
• “[A] legislative intent not clearly revealed may be presumed to hold in contemplation the reasonable and probable. If something else was in view, it should not have been left to implication. There will be no assumption of a purpose to visit oppression.”
• “[A] legislative intent not clearly revealed may be presumed to hold in contemplation the reasonable and probable. If something else was in view, it should not have been left to implication. There will be no assumption of a purpose to visit oppression.”

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