State ex rel. Stone v. County Court of Vernon
Supreme Court of Missouri
Jlffpeal from Vernon Circuit Court. I. The act of 1873 is not amendatory of, but repeals the act of 1872 by the most emphatic language. The court cannot construe a law that can only have one manifest meaning. (Sedg. Stat. Law, 121.) There is no question here of repeal by implication. (Newkirk vs. Chapman, 17 111., 344.) II.
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Jlffpeal from Vernon Circuit Court. I. The act of 1873 is not amendatory of, but repeals the act of 1872 by the most emphatic language. The court cannot construe a law that can only have one manifest meaning. (Sedg. Stat. Law, 121.) There is no question here of repeal by implication. (Newkirk vs. Chapman, 17 111., 344.) II. A subsequent statute, revising the whole subject of a former one, and intended as a substitute for it, although it contains no express words to that effect, operates as a repeal of the former. (Mich. Canal vs. City of Chicago, 14 111., 336; Bartlett vs. King, 12 Mass.,…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
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