Fees v. Mutual Fire & Automobile Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• beginning its consideration of the validity of a “policy release and release of all claims” by considering whether the release was “clear and unequivocal”
• stating an issue of fact is “genuine” if the evidence would allow a reasonable person to find for the resisting party
• “Settlement agreements are basically contracts, and in reviewing them, we turn to the general principles of contract interpretation.”
• illegality is an affirmative defense to a breach of contract claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).