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· 7/19/1979

Labbe v. Nissen Corp.

Citations

  • 404 A.2d 564
  • 1979 Me. LEXIS 696

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that enactment of additional provision showed an intent to change the law
  • offering an “edited” version of a statutory provision only as an illustration of the Court’s construction of the statute based on a reasonable interpretation of the actual text
  • \Nothing in a statute may be treated as surplusage if a reasonable construction supplying meaning and force is otherwise possible.\
  • contacts must be “fairly extensive”

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Judges: Pomeroy, Wernick, Archibald, Godfrey, Nichols, McKusick, Delahanty

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