Foxfield Realty, Inc. v. Kubala

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that courts “will construe a contract reasonably to avoid absurd results”
• observing that courts prefer an interpretation of agreements that makes them “fair, customary, and such as prudent persons would naturally execute,” rather than “inequitable, unusual, or such as reasonable persons would not be likely to enter into”
• interpreting a right-to-sell agreement between a real estate agency and homeowners, taking into account the facts including the deed through which the ownership of the house was transferred
• “Although the term ‘sale’ has no fixed or invariable meaning, it is to be interpreted in accordance with the manifest intention of the parties.”
• a contract should not be interpreted to lead to an absurd result
• “Courts will construe a contract reasonably to avoid absurd results.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).