Bloomfield v. Bloomfield

How courts have described this case

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

• “When evidence is lacking that both parties intended to violate the law, a contract ... should be construed in favor of its legality.”
• ‘‘there is a strong public policy favoring individuals ordering and deciding their own interests through contractual arrange- ments’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “It is axiomatic that claims and defenses that arise out of the same transaction as a claim asserted in the complaint are not barred by the Statute of Limitations, even though an independent action by defendant might have been time-barred at the time the action was commenced”
• “It is axiomatic that claims and defenses that arise out of the same transaction as a claim asserted in the complaint are not barred by the Statute of Limitations, even though an independent action by the defendant might have been time-barred at the time the action was commenced.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).