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J.A. JONES CONSTRUCTION CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. G014974.

27 Cal.App.4th 1568 (1994)

33 Cal. Rptr.2d 206

J.A. JONES CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ORANGE COUNTY, Respondent; DAI-ICHI KANGYO BANK, LTD., Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

August 31, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Aiken, Kramer & Cummings and Bruce G. Herold for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Brown & Brown, Howard B. Brown and Ronald J. Mandell for Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

SILLS, P.J.

Felix Frankfurter once made fun of the tendency of courts to look at legislative history rather than the actual words of the statute. "[T]his is a case for applying the canon of construction of the wag who said, when the legislative history is doubtful, go to the statute," he wrote. (Greenwood v. United States (1956) 350 U.S. 366

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