LOWE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
"I have more than once had occasion to say," repeated Lord Halsbury in Hilder v. Dexter 1902 A.C. 474, 477, "that in construing a statute I believe the worst person to construe it is the person who is responsible for its drafting. He is very much disposed to confuse what he intended to do with the effect of the language which in fact has been employed."
In this appeal from the Circuit Court for Montgomery...
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