State ex rel. Atkinson v. Ernest E. Evans

Citations

• 46 Wash. 219
• 89 P. 565
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 594

Syllabus

<p>Aliens — Right to Acquire Real Estate — Mineral Lands — Constitutional Law — Construction. An alien can acquire lands in this state containing deposits of limestone, silica, silicated rock and clay, to be used in good faith in the manufacture of cement, such deposits being “minerals” within the meaning of Const., art. 2, § 33, and not to be restricted by the words “metals, iron, coal or fire clay,” following; since a construction must be adopted to give effect to every part of the clause and to give words their natural and ordinary meaning.</p> <p>Constitutional Law — Rules of Construction. Contemporaneous construction of words and phrases used in the constitution should have great weight in their construction.</p>