Brown Real Estate Co. v. Lancaster County

The language of section 1, ch. 215, Laws 1919, seems to be plain in its requirements when considered in connection with the entire scope of paving legislation. Section 1 reads:

“Wherever any paving district is created along or adjacent to any state institution or the state fair ground, the officers having in charge state institutions, or the fair grounds, are hereby authorized and empowered to sign petitions in the name of the state, to create paving districts.”

It is said in the opinion of the majority that to interpret the .act according to the plain meaning of its words is to impute to the…