Consedine v. Portville Central School District

How courts have described this case

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

• instructing courts to read contracts as a whole and not place “undue emphasis” upon particular words or phrases
• “Whether a contract is ambiguous is a question of law . . . .”
• “Courts may not by construction add or excise terms, nor distort the meaning of those used and thereby make a new contract for the parties under the guise of interpreting the writing.”
• “Courts ‘may not by construction add or excise terms, nor distort the meaning of those used and thereby make a new contract for the parties under the guise of interpreting the writing.’ ” (internal citation omitted)
• “Courts may not by construction add or excise terms, nor distort the meaning of those used and thereby make a new contract for the parties under the guise of interpreting the writing.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).