Frear v. P.T.A. Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a court will interpret an unambiguous contract, such as a settlement agreement, “by assigning language its ordinary meaning and without resort to extrinsic evidence”
• “[W]e begin with the observation that, under contract law, an oral contract is ordinarily no less binding than one reduced to writing.”
• “[I]n the absence of ambiguity a written instrument will be enforced strictly according to its terms[.]” (quoting O’Bryan v. Massey-Ferguson, Inc., 413 S.W.2d 891, 893 (Ky. 1966))
• in resolving ambiguity, “the court will gather, if possible, the intention of the parties[.]”
• “[I]n the absence of ambiguity a written instrument will be enforced strictly according to its terms, and a court will interpret the contract’s terms by assigning language its ordinary meaning and without resort to extrinsic evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).