Chicago Land Clearance Commission v. Jones

How courts have described this case

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

• “[I]n order to effectuate the intention of the parties to a contract, where the intention is evident, the word 'and' may be construed to mean ‘or.’”
• “[I]n order to effectuate the intention of the parties to a contract, where the intention is evident, the word ‘and’ may be construed to mean ‘or.’”
• “Ordinarily the word ‘and’ and the word ‘or’ are not in any sense interchangeable terms. ‘And’ is strictly of a conjunctive, ‘or’ of a disjunctive, nature.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).