De Witt County Public Building Commission v. County of De Witt

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• finding that contractual terms should be construed to avoid the conclusion that other terms are redundant and meaningless
• finding that contractual terms should be construed to avoid the conclusion that other terms are redundant and meaningless
• comparing a purchaser of mortgages and the bank from which the mortgages are purchased, noting that the purchaser is intelligent and has available all information relative to the mortgaged properties
• “Those who have in the law’s view been strangers remain such, unless both consent by word or deed to an alteration of that status.” (quoting S. Trust Co. v. Lucas, 245 F. 286, 288 (8th Cir.1917))
• “[C]onsent may find expression in acts as readily as in words.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).