Cail v. Service Motors, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that if the words of a statute are clear and unambiguous, the statute should be given its common, everyday meaning
• stating that if the words of a statute are clear and unambiguous, the statute should be given its common, everyday meaning
• Providing that words shall be given their ordinary meaning
• “A prerequisite to recovery [of damages under the DTPA] is delivery 3 of written notice”
• settlement offer insufficient to preserve penalty for consumer’s unreasonable refusal to accept it when no offer was made to reimburse for attorney’s fees
• instructing appellate court to use words’ ordinary meaning

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).