1010 Potomac Associates v. Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that extrinsic evidence of parties’ subjective intent “may be resorted to only if the document is ambiguous”
• noting that a contract’s “meaning must be ascertained in light of all the circumstances surrounding the parties at the time the contract was made”
• explaining that contracts are construed “as a whole”
• “Extrinsic evidence of the parties’ subjective intent may be resorted to only if the document is ambiguous.”
• “Extrinsic evidence of the parties’ subjective intent may be resorted to only if the document is ambiguous.”
• “The writing must be interpreted as a whole, giving a reasonable, lawful, and effective meaning to all its terms.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).