Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. O'KELLEY

How courts have described this case

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• holding a court may initially turn to extrinsic evidence in construing a contract
• holding a court may initially turn to extrinsic evidence in construing a contract
• affirming dismissal of punitive damage claim regarding negligent training, safe handling of propane tanks, and failure to warn
• admission of irrelevant evidence was harmless error because it took a short time in a multiple-day trial and was not mentioned at closing argument
• \[A] court in this jurisdiction may initially turn to extrinsic evidence in construing a contract.\
• “[W]here there is no evidence that gives rise to an inference of actual malice or conduct sufficiently outrageous to be deemed equivalent to actual malice, the trial court need not submit the punitive damages issue to the jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).