Jacobs v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Rodney, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

It may readily be conceded that where, from other language of a particular act of legislation, it can be definitely ascertained that an omission of a word or words was not the intention of the Legislature, but was clearly a clerical error, the word or words necessary to carry out the will *52and plain intent of the Legislature will be supplied. Such was the holding of Winter v. Hindin, 3 W. W. Harr. (33 Del.) 294, 136 A. 280. The intent of the Legislature, however, must be plainly deducible from the remaining parts of the statute. Lewis Sutherland’s…