State Ex Rel. McLeod v. Montgomery

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a court must presume that the legislature “intended by its action to accomplish something and not to do a futile thing”
• finding that a court must presume that the legislature \intended by its action to accomplish something and not to do a futile thing\
• in seeking intention of legislature, Court must presume General Assembly intended by its action to accomplish something and not to do a futile thing
• in seeking intention of legislature, Court must presume General Assembly intended by its action to accomplish something and not to do a futile thing
• “In seeking the intention of the legislature, we must presume that it intended by its actions to accomplish something and not to do a futile thing.”
• court will reject construction of statute that would lead to absurd result not possibly intended by legislature

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).