Horwitz v. Weil

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that Georgia law requires contracts to be considered as a whole, giving effect to each provision to harmonize them, and rejecting any construction that renders portions of the contractual language meaningless
• rejecting literal construction of agreement that would have rendered certain language meaningless and contravened intent of the parties
• rejecting literal construction of agreement that would have rendered certain language meaningless and contravened intent of the parties
• applying rules of construction to ascertain meaning of ambiguous provisions of settlement agreement
• applying rules of construction to ascertain meaning of ambiguous provisions of settlement agreement
• “Ambiguity in a contract is defined as duplicity, indistinctness or an uncertainty of meaning or expression.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).