Iden v. Kasden

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “expert witness' 9 opinion based on facts or inferences not supported by evidence has no evidentiary value; the opinion cannot constitute proof of the existence of facts necessary to support the opinion”
• “[C]ustom or usage may be employed in explanation and qualification of terms of a contract that would otherwise be ambiguous”
• \expert witness' opinion based on facts or inferences not supported by evidence has no evidentiary value; the opinion cannot constitute proof of the existence of facts necessary to support the opinion\
• “[W]hile custom or usage may be employed in explanation and qualification of terms of a contract that would otherwise be ambiguous, it cannot operate to contravene express instructions or to contradict an express contract to the contrary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).