Hastings Mutual Insurance v. Safety King, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that contract terms are not ambiguous when they admit of but one interpretation when the terms are considered in context according to their ordinary meaning
• “[C]ontract terms should not be considered in isolation and contracts are to be interpreted to avoid absurd or unreasonable conditions and results.”
• “If the contractual language is unambiguous, courts must interpret and enforce the contract as written[.]”
• “contaminate” means “to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.,” and “something that contaminates or carries contamination”
• “contaminate” means “to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.,” and “something that contaminates or carries contamination”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).