Cohan v. Thurston

How courts have described this case

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• extrinsic evidence \cannot be used to first create an ambiguity and then remove it\
• extrinsic evidence “cannot be used to first create an ambiguity and then remove it”
• parol evidence is not admissible if a document is unambiguous
• for extrinsic evidence to be admitted to explain an ambiguity in a document, such “ambiguity must be apparent on the face of the instrument” since “[p]arol evidence cannot be used to first create an ambiguity and then to remove it.”
• ambiguity must be apparent from face of contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).