Fort Worth Independent School District v. City of Fort Worth

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that courts may read separate documents that pertain to same transaction as one contract
• holding that generally a contract is legally binding only if its terms are sufficiently definite to enable a court to understand the parties = obligations
• concluding that a series of documents between two governmental entities constituted a single, unified contract
• recognizing that ordinances may be read together as a single contract to determine purpose or intent
• holding that instruments pertaining to same transaction may be read together to ascertain parties’ intent and that courts may construe documents “as if they were part of a single, unified instrument”
• holding that a letter agreement whereby the city committed that, if it negotiated a new agreement with Southwestern Bell, it would arrive at an appropriate arrangement to distribute revenue to the school district was not enforceable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).