Modern Homes Construction Co. v. Burke

How courts have described this case

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• “In the dividing line of power between these co-ordinate branches we find here the boundary -- construction belongs to the courts, legislation to the legislature. We can not add a line to the law, nor can the legislature enlarge or diminish a law by construction.”
• \[statutory] construction belongs to the courts\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).