Cardwell v. Sicola-Cardwell

How courts have described this case

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

• holding survival of certain person in a personal service contract is constructive condition to any further obligation of either party of contract
• \Texas law mandates that we apply contract principles to determine whether the obligation contained in [an agreed support order] terminated on [the obligor's] death.\
• “Texas law mandates that we apply contract principles to determine whether the obligation contained in [an agreed support order] terminated on [the obligor’s] death.”
• “To determine whether a contract is ambiguous, we must look at the contract as a whole in light of the circumstances present when the parties made the agreement.”
• ATo determine whether a contract is ambiguous, we must look at the contract as a whole in light of the circumstances present when the parties made the agreement.@

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).