Cunningham v. Frucher

In Cunningham v. Frucher (110 Misc2d. 458, 442 N.Y.S.2d 693), the court citing McKinney's Consolidated Laws of NY, Book 1, Statutes 97 said that "a statute ... is to be construed as a whole ... [reading] all parts of an act ... together to determine legislative intent [thus taking] the entire act into consideration and [reading] all sections of the law ... together to determine its fair meaning." (Id. at 463.) The Cunningham court added, citing Statutes 130, that "it is immaterial in such construction that the statute is divided into sections, chapters or titles" because "all sections of the law must be read together ... as if they were all in the same section." (Id. at 463.)