Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Vail Manufacturing Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
Vail Mfg. Co. v. Nat’l Labor Rels. Bd., 331 U.S. 835 (1947)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1947-06-02
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- “There is no more likely way to misapprehend the meaning of language — be it in a constitution, a statute, a will or a contract — than to read the words literally, forgetting the object which the document as a whole is meant to secure.”
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- Authority status
- pending
- Cited by
- 27 opinions
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied.