Sellers v. Bles

I would affirm the judgment of the trial court, basing affirmance upon what we said in Bowen Electric Company v. Foley, 194 Va. 92, 72 S. E. 2d 388, and the line of cases applying the statute involved. In those cases we repeatedly stated the purpose and design of the legislature in enacting the statute. We recognized the hardships which may result from its enforcement; but we nevertheless applied its provisions without attempting to resort to a subtlety of reasoning and expression in the effort to find some ambiguity, which might relieve an unregistered contractor from the penalties of the…