Atlas Corp. v. Clovis National Bank

How courts have described this case

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

• in construing contracts, the court must give effect to the parties’ intentions. If possible, those intentions must be determined from an examination of the text of the agreement
• “ ‘[T]he nature of the ... interest and the rights of its owner must be determined from the provisions of the instrument which creat: ed it.’ ”
• “The cardinal rule in construing any contract must be to give effect to the intentions of the parties.”
• “[I]nasmuch as the agreements and the mining deed were executed substantially contemporaneously and are clearly interrelated, they must be construed as a whole and harmonized, if possible.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).