Merchants' Nat. Bank v. National Bank of Commerce

How courts have described this case

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• “It is a rule of statutory construction, which also applies to the construction of a constitution, that a proviso should be confined to the antecedent next preceding it, unless the contrary intention clearly appears.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).