United Fire & Casualty Co. v. Acker

How courts have described this case

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• holding court will construe statutes in such a way as to avoid absurd and impractical results
• stating that the meaning of the unqualified and broad term “any person” must be considered in its overall context
• court will not construe a statute in a way that would produce impractical or absurd results
• “We engage in statutory construction only when the meaning of statutory provisions is unclear,” citing Iowa Code § 4.6 and Krull v. Thermogas Co., 522 N.W.2d 607, 612 (Iowa 1994)
• “We engage in statutory construction only when the meaning of statutory provisions is unclear,” citing Iowa Code § 4.6 and Krull v. Thermogas Co., 522 N.W.2d 607, 612 (Iowa 1994)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).