Crown Management Corp. v. Goodman

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “the growing and better reasoned trend of authority indicates that the introduction of parol evidence to probe the true intent of the parties is proper, irrespective of any technical classification of the type of ambiguity present.”
• finding latent ambiguity in a contract that determined payments due according to both a percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index and a point increase in the Consumer Price Index
• “[A] patent ambiguity is that which appears on the face of the instrument and arises from the use of defective, obscure, or insensible language.”
• “the growing and better reasoned trend of authority indicates that the introduction of parol evidence to probe the true intent of the parties is proper, irrespective of any technical classification of the type of ambiguity present”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).