Drummond Co. v. Walter Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Drummond bases its breach-of- contract claim against JWR on direct liability only because JWR was a signatory to the 1991 agreement.”
• lessee under four coal-mining leases brought claims against lessor based on a will-extend clause that the court found too indefinite to enforce
• “[I]f a court cannot discern the intentions of the parties to a contract because the contract is so vague and indefinite, the contract is void on the ground of uncertainty.”
• “[I]f a court cannot discern the intentions of the parties to a contract because the contract is so vague and indefinite, the contract is void on the ground of uncertainty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).