Fast v. Kahan

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “in the absence of fraud or mutual mistake, a clear and unambiguous contract must be enforced according to its terms”
• terms of a written contract may be varied, modified, waived, annulled or wholly set aside by subsequently executed contract in parol or in writing
• although the contract included provisions for determining amount of partners' annual settlement, partners adopted another means to determine annual settlement, and so modified contract by their conduct
• courts have generally held that statutes permitting unincorporated associations to be sued eo nomine do not preclude a plaintiff from pursuing any remedy available to him at law or in equity against the individual members

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).