First National Mortgage Co. v. Federal Realty Investment Trust

How courts have described this case

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

• “[I]t is reversible error for a trial court to refuse to 8 consider such extrinsic evidence on the basis of the trial court’s own conclusion that the language 9 of the contract appears to be clear and unambiguous on its face.”
• California contract law permits extrinsic evidence only when the offered evidence is “relevant to prove a meaning to which the language of the instrument is reasonably susceptible.” (quoting Pac. Gas & Elec. Co. v. G.W. Thomas Drayage & Rigging Co., 69 Cal. 2d 33, 37 (1968)
• “Creation of a valid contract requires mutual assent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).