J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co. v. Watson

ON REHEARING.

A petition for rehearing in this case has been presented, in which it is insisted the court, in the opinion handed down, has changed the meaning of section 1, c. 81, p. 117, Acts 1889, invoked in the cause, by placing as is done, in the excerpt from the act, a comma after the words “printed handbills,” when in the original there is no such mark of punctuation. It is conceded by counsel of the petitioner that, thus punctuated, the section “is subject to the interpretation that the advertisement may be made in either one of the two manners [modes?]; that is to say, by printed…