The following excerpt is from Gonder v. Kelley, 372 F.2d 94 (9th Cir. 1967):
This conclusion can result only from a blind adherence to strict legal principles. Thus, while it is true that a "new" legal obligation has arisen, the fact is inescapable that its origin lay in the old one; and to ignore the obvious "instead of subserving the fundamental purposes of the statute * * * rather tends to bring about unfortunate if not irrational results." McIntyre v. Kavanaugh, 242 U.S. 138, 141, 37 S.Ct. 38, 40, 61 L.Ed. 205 (1916).
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