Waddell v. Briggs

How courts have described this case

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

• examining the statutes of other jurisdictions to discern the purpose of a Maine statute proscribing heart balm suits due to “the absence of legislative history or preambulary provision in the enactment of [Maine’s statute]”
• a court must look to the end sought in the enactment of a statute and approve a construction which will not nullify its purpose
• a court must look to the end sought in the enactment of a statute and approve a construction which will not nullify its purpose

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).