“There is no more likely way to misapprehend the meaning of language — be it in a constitution, a statute, a will or a contract — than to read the words literally, forgetting the object which the document as a whole is meant to secure.”
How later courts described this case
- “There is no more likely way to misapprehend the meaning of language — be it in a constitution, a statute, a will or a contract — than to read the words literally, forgetting the object which the document as a whole is meant to secure.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied.