Capital City Mortgage Corp. v. Habana Village Art & Folklore, 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 ambiguities in contracts will be “„construed strongly against the drafter.‟”
• stating that ambiguities in contracts will be “„construed strongly against the drafter.‟”
• “The court construing a contract cannot ignore a contract term; each provision must be given meaning if at all possible.”
• “[I]f, after applying the rules of contract interpretation, the terms still are not subject to one definite meaning, . . . the ambiguities [will] be construed strongly against the drafter.” (internal citations and quotation marks omitted)
• “We have stressed on other occasions, moreover — in responding to what the tenant really is asking us to do here — that under no circumstances will extrinsic evidence be admissible to reveal the subjective intent of a party to a contract unambiguous on its face.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).