Briggs v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the parties agreed that the catalog setting forth the tuition rate for the year was “primarily governed by contract principles”
• noting that the parties agreed that the catalog setting forth the tuition rate for the year was “primarily governed by contract principles”
• providing principles of contract interpretation under New Hampshire l a w
• the court determines the meaning of the contract “based on the meaning that would be attached to it by reasonable persons”
• The relationship between a university and its students is governed by contract principles, however, a strict doctrinal approach is inappropriate.
• court determined the meaning of an ambiguous contract term where, upon all of the evidence, any other reading would lead to an unreasonable result

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).