Stewart v. Schneider

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing \to read into the statute an intent that the General Assembly could easily have made explicit had it chosen to do so\
• “ ‘In determining intent, it is the duty of this court to give effect to the works used, not to delete words used or insert words not used.’ ” (citation omitted)
• “The subcontractor, to the extent of his demand, takes the place of the contractor, so that, if the owner, as against the latter, can withhold the payment of the moneys earned, he can do so, in like manner against the demands of the former.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).