A. L. Pickens Company, Inc. v. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company

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• under Kentucky law construction of a contract term is a question of law for the reviewing court
• “When ultimate facts or conclusions of law appear in an affidavit which also contains the proper subject of affidavit testimony, facts within the personal knowledge of the affiant, the extraneous material should be disregarded, and only the facts considered.”
• “Under the doctrine of contemporaneous construction, courts are required to give great weight to the interpretation which the parties have placed on an ambiguous contract. The construction of the parties is best evidenced by their conduct with respect to the agreement.”

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