Cantrell Supply, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that a court may consider “the conduct of the parties” only when “a contract is ambiguous or silent on a vital matter”
• observing that, “[a]bsent an ambiguity in the contract, the parties’ intentions must be discerned from the four corners of the instrument without resort to extrinsic evidence”
• stating that “[t]he fact that one party may have intended different results . . . is insufficient to construe a contract at variance with its plain and unambiguous terms”
• “An agreement to settle legal claims is essentially a contract subject to the rules of contract interpretation.”
• “Generally, the interpretation of a contract, including determining whether a contract is ambiguous, is a question of law for the courts and is subject to de novo review.”
• “Absent an ambiguity in the contract, the partis’ intentions must be discerned from the four corners of the instrument without resort to extrinsic evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).