Hale v. Stimson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Phelps Circuit Court. — Hon. W. N. Evans, Judge. (1) Section 8 of article 8 of the Constitution should not be construed to disqualify the inmates of a Soldiers.’ Home, but the disqualification should be confined to persons “kept at a poor house,” or some “other asylum” of the same class as a “poor house,” at public expense, upon the principle of ejusdem generis; in other words, the term “other aslyum,” being a general term, following particular words, will be…
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Appeal from Phelps Circuit Court. — Hon. W. N. Evans, Judge. (1) Section 8 of article 8 of the Constitution should not be construed to disqualify the inmates of a Soldiers.’ Home, but the disqualification should be confined to persons “kept at a poor house,” or some “other asylum” of the same class as a “poor house,” at public expense, upon the principle of ejusdem generis; in other words, the term “other aslyum,” being a general term, following particular words, will be confined in its application to asylums of the same class as a “poor house.” 2 Lewis’s Sutherland, Statutory Construction (2…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, J.
In obeying the order of this court to formulate its pronouncement in this cause, a meed of credit is due at the threshold, to be likened to and read as an inscription over a gateway. That meed of credit is this: the labor of the writer has been made light and pleasing by the research and erudition of our Brother Marshall, who (going on before as a pioneer in the path of investigation), has not only blazed the way but left map, survey and memoranda of his route — the ultimate conclusion reached by him, on the main question, the old soldiers’ vote — being adopted.
Hale and Stimson were opposing…
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