Aerojet-General Shipyards, Inc., a Corporation, and the Home Indemnity Company, a Corporation v. William M. O'keeffe, Etc.

(dissenting) :

With deference, I must dissent from the judgment of the court and the opinion that leads to it.

If we were to approach the problem here presented without any intervening legal precedents, coercing us to either position, (which, for reasons I shall state below, I really think is the situation), I would start fresh by looking at the statutes involved. Such a study would lead me to the following rationalization:

We have here what all must concede to be remedial legislation, requiring liberal interpretation for the benefit of the class for whom it was passed, that is to say, the…