rules of liberal construction apply to remedial statutes “provided such interpretation is not inconsistent with the language used ... resolving all reasonable doubts in favor of applicability of the statute to the particular case”
How later courts described this case
- rules of liberal construction apply to remedial statutes “provided such interpretation is not inconsistent with the language used ... resolving all reasonable doubts in favor of applicability of the statute to the particular case”
- "All doubt will be resolved in favor of the right to redeem.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
Distinguished
Distinguished by Metro Auto Auction v. Director of Revenue, 1986 Mo. LEXIS 267 (1986)
Id. at 106. LeFevre is distinguishable because in section 407.536 there are no ambiguous words for this Court to interpret.
The opinion
DONNELLY, Chief Justice,
concurring in result.
This is prohibition.
In my view, a determination of equities and windfalls is inappropriate in prohibition. Cf. State ex rel. Smith v. Greene, 494 S.W.2d 55, 61 (Mo. banc 1973) (Donnelly, J., dissenting).
I concur only in the result.