Ralph Depietro v. Clyde W. Tarter

Plaintiff-appellant, who is out of court unless we rescue him by interpretations he wishes given to certain statutes of limitation of Rhode Island and Connecticut, makes essentially two contentions. (1) That the meaning to be given to all parts of a statute is to be restricted by what is provided in the first sentence, even though to do so would do violence to the normal meaning of later language. (2) That when it appears that the legislature amended a statute after the discovery of a defect, any amendment is to be construed, if possible, as applying only to that particular defect. We do not…