Slakman v. Continental Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that, when interpreting a statute, a court must avoid “a construction that makes some language mere surplusage”
• explaining that, when interpreting a statute, a court must avoid \a construction that makes some language mere surplusage\
• explaining that, when interpreting a statute, a court must avoid “a construction that makes some language mere surplusage”
• explaining that, when interpreting a statute, a court must avoid \a construction that makes some language mere surplusage\
• In interpreting a statute, we must “avoid a construction that makes some language [in the statute] mere surplusage”
• At the same time that we construe a statute according to its terms, giving its words their plain and ordinary meaning, we must also “seek to effectuate the intent of the legislature”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).