Atlantic Northern Airlines, Inc. v. Schwimmer

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• observing that, under New Jersey law, extrinsic evidence is always admissible to aid in interpreting contracts
• noting a trial court is permitted to rely on extrinsic evidence to aid in its interpretation of a document even when the document is not ambiguous on its face
• explaining that “parol evidence rule purports to exclude testimony only when it is offered for the purpose of varying or contradicting terms of an integrated contract; it does not purport to exclude evidence offered for the purpose of interpreting and giving a meaning to those terms”
• evidence of circumstances always admissible in interpretation of integrated contract, even where contract free on its face from ambiguity
• “the polestar of construction is the intention of the parties as revealed by the language used”
• “Language is only too often an imperfect and uncertain means of communicating ideas and concepts.”

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