State Ex Rel. Hunter v. Lippold

How courts have described this case

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• courts construe words using their plain and ordinary meaning, and word \shall\ expresses compulsion, obligation, or necessity
• “when a statute merely requires certain things to be done and nowhere prescribes the results that shall follow if such things are not done … the statute is merely directory”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).