First American National Bank v. Chicken System of America, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that there is privity of contract between an assignor and assignee
• “[T]he cardinal rule of construction” of written instruments is “that the intention of the parties as ascertained from the language of the instrument controls.”
• “[T]here is privity of estate between an original [tenant] and a subsequent [landlord] assignee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).