Fishman v. LaSalle National Bank

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that parties to a contract are presumed to intend rational results
• stating, in interpreting a contract subject to Massachusetts law, that “[cjommon sense is as much a part of contract interpretation as is the dictionary or the arsenal of canons”
• “Common sense is as much a part of contract interpretation as is the dictionary or the arsenal of canons.”
• \The presumption in commercial contracts is that the parties were trying to accomplish something rational.\ (citing Shea v. Bay State Gas Co., 418 N.E.2d 597, 601-02 (Mass. 1981))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).