Fort Vancouver Plywood Company v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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

• “When determining whether contract language is patently ambiguous, the language must be placed at a point along a spectrum of ambiguity”
• “Under the rule of contra proferentum, the contract is construed against the drafter if the interpretation advanced by the nondrafter is reasonable.”
• patent ambiguities are “so glaring as to raise a duty to inquire” by the contractor
• applying the plain language analysis of contract interpretation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).