Bean v. People ex rel. Uppercu

The principal question presented by the record in this case is one of statutory construction purely. Section 667 of the General Statutes provides that the county clerk shall keep his office “open during the usual business hours, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, and [that] all books and papers required to be kept in his office shall be open for the examination of any person.”

' The cardinal rule of statutory construction is to discover and declare the intent of the law makers. Counsel for the defendants in error contend that the section above mentioned needs and will admit of no…