Andrukiewicz v. Andrukiewicz

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the plaintiff failed to preserve defense of laches for appellate review where the plaintiff failed to raise it before the trial justice
• stating that a fundamental principle of contract interpretation requires that an interpretation that reduces certain words of a contract to mere surplusage should be rejected
• stating that every word of a contract should be given meaning and effect; an interpretation that reduces certain words to the status of surplusage should be rejected
• “When ascertaining the usual and ordinary meaning of contractual language, every word of the contract should be given meaning and effect; an interpretation that reduces certain words to the status of sur-plusage should be rejected.”
• discussing standard for interpreting property settlement agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).