· 7/19/1979
Labbe v. Nissen Corp.
Citations
- 404 A.2d 564
- 1979 Me. LEXIS 696
How courts have described this case
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- 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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