Edgar v. Werchan

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “words of the contract must be given their natural and ordinary meaning” and that court “will not torture words to impart ambiguity where ordinary meaning leaves no room for ambiguity” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating that “words of the contract must be given their natural and ordinary meaning” and that court “will not torture words to impart ambiguity where ordinary meaning leaves no room for ambiguity” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[t]he law of contract interpretation militates against interpreting a contract in a way that renders a provision superfluous”
• ‘‘[t]he contract must be viewed in its entirety, with each provision read in light of the other provisions’’
• “[t]he law of contract interpretation militates against interpreting a contract in a way that renders a provision superfluous”
• “[t]he law of contract interpretation militates against interpreting a contract in a way that renders a provision superfluous”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).