Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 v. Thompson

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• treating as enforceable a contractual provision denying pay for unused vacation when the employee is terminated without cause
• contract language is construed in harmony with the plain and generally accepted meaning of the words employed, and a court may not consider a party's own extrinsic expression of intent
• In a contract, “[s]ilence does not by itself necessarily create ambiguity as a matter of law.”
• “Only after a contract is deemed ambiguous may the trial court use extrinsic evidence to assist it in ascertaining the intent of the parties.”

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