Covinsky v. Hannah Marine Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• observing that contractual interpretation is a legal question, but the question of how a party was terminated under a contract is a question of fact
• courts interpret a contract as a whole and apply the plain and ordinary meaning to unambiguous terms
• the plaintiff argued that the defendant violated the Act by “not paying [the plaintiff] his final compensation, the sums due under the employment contract, at the time of his termination”
• “Whether a breach of contract has occurred generally is *** a question of fact.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).