Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. Patterson

I cannot concur in the conclusion reached. It is in conflict with the entire plan of our irrigation district act. It is an elementary rule of construction that an act should be considered as a whole, and in thus considering it we should take into consideration all pre-existing laws and such other matters as courts take judicial notice of. In County Commissioners v. Lunney, 46 Colo. 403, at page 415, 104 Pac. 945, 949, it is said: *540of a narrower import may be expanded to embrace it to effectuate that intent.”

*539“In the interpretation of a statute the legislative purpose and object are always to be…