Brownie v. Aluminum Smelting & Refining Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that this 10 No. 71036-2-1/11 court will not read an ambiguity into a contract that is otherwise clear and unambiguous and interpretation of an unambiguous contract is a matter of law
• \courts favor the interpretation of a writing which gives effect to all of its provisions over an interpretation which renders some of the language meaningless or ineffective\
• “courts favor the interpretation of a writing which gives effect to all of its provisions over an interpretation which renders some of the language meaningless or ineffective”
• A contract provision, however, is not ambiguous simply because the parties suggest opposing meanings; and “we will not read ambiguity into a contract where it can reasonably be avoided.”
• \[i]nterpretation of an unambiguous contract is a question of law\
• “[i]nterpretation of an unambiguous contract is a question of law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).