Mr. Justice S WAYNE delivered the opinion of the court. A thing may be within the letter of a statute and not within its meaning, and within its meaning, though not within its letter. * †‡The intention of the lawmaker is the law. Revenue laws are to be construed libei*ally to ca…
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