Gulf Const. Co., Inc. v. Self

How courts have described this case

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• in absence of limiting clause, whether contract provision is condition precedent must be gathered from contract as whole and parties’ intent
• “We hold that the [clause] merely provides a covenant dealing with ‘terms of payment’ or ‘manner of payment’ rather than a condition precedent.”
• “it is a rule of construction that a forfeiture, by finding a condition precedent, is to be avoided when possible under another reasonable reading of the contract”
• prejudgment interest can be awarded as damages under equitable principles

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).