Appalachian Power Co. v. Greater Lynchburg Transit Co.

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• contract language is to be taken in its ordinary signification, and if, when so read, the meaning is plain, the instrument must be given effect accordingly
• if the transit company had been an instrumentality of the City, then the City could be held vicariously liable
• applying plain meaning to contract language

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).