Blecker v. Kofoed

How courts have described this case

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• stating that an appellate court interprets an order to effectuate the district court’s intent by applying the same rules of construction as when an appellate court interprets a statute or contract
• noting that an appellate court interprets an order to effectuate the district court’s intent by applying the same rules of construction as when an appellate court interprets a statute or contract
• “One of the most reliable indications of the true intent of the parties to a contract is their behavior and interpretation of the contract before a controversy arises.”
• “When an order is ambiguous, the task of the reviewing court is to determine what the trial judge intended in issuing the order. To resolve an ambiguity, it is appropriate to refer to the entire record and to the circumstances surrounding the order.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).