Pedersen v. Green

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• words of common usage, when used in a statute, should be construed in their plain and ordinary sense
• when words of common usage appear in a statute they should be construed in their plain and ordinary sense
• Words of common usage, when used in a statute, should be construed in their plain and ordinary sense
• stale bread used to feed animals did not qualify as tax exempt as a general grocery, and fertilizer used by a zookeeper in a grazing meadow would not be exempt as a fertilizer used on crops or grains
• held that a sales tax exemption for \feeds\ would include feed for zoo animals and, inter alia, dogs, but that a subsequent sales tax exemption for \feed for livestock\ would raise additional revenue because it was more restrictive

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