American Cyanamid Co. v. Ring

How courts have described this case

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• retroactive date on contract given effect to fill gap of two weeks after expiration of prior identical contract
• date contract was signed was date of execution; effective date was retroactive date contained in body of contract
• typed effective date of contract differed from handwritten date of execution by one party, written under his signature
• “[T]he effective date of a contract is not the date of execution where the contract expressly states that its terms are to take effect at an earlier date.”
• “[T]he effective date of a contract is not the date of execution where the contract expressly states that its terms are to take effect at an earlier date.”
• “While, generally, an ambiguity in a contract may be explained by parol evidence, parol evidence is inadmissible to add to, take from or vary a written contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).