Berry v. Klinger

How courts have described this case

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

• stating a contract’s “meaning is to be gathered from all its associated parts assembled as the unitary expression of the agreement of the parties”
• contract \must be read as a single document\ and its meaning \is to be gathered from all its associated parts\
• “The court must give effect to all of the language of a contract if its parts can be read together without conflict.”
• which basically forbids the Court to take parol evidence as to the meaning of a contract where no ambiguity exists in the contract language
• “[T]he court cannot make a new contract for the parties, but must construe its language as written.”
• “Where possible, meaning must be given to every clause [in a contract].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).