"Where words are defined in a particular statute, and it is clear that the legislature intended to give to such words a different meaning than the one generally and ordinarily given to such words, the statutory definition is the one to be applied."
How later courts described this case
- "Where words are defined in a particular statute, and it is clear that the legislature intended to give to such words a different meaning than the one generally and ordinarily given to such words, the statutory definition is the one to be applied."
- “In ordinary usage the term ‘services’ has a rather broad and general meaning. It includes generally any act performed for the benefit of another under some arrangement or agreement whereby such act was to have been performed”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
LARSON, Justice
(concurring).
I concur in the result.