James v. Federal Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining a court may not remake or alter a contract to make it different than the contract made by the parties
• “[w]hen a contract is clear the court is bound to enforce the contract as it finds it”
• “The law will not make a better contract for parties than they themselves have seen fit to enter into, or alter it for the benefit of one party and to the detriment of the other”
• “The law will not make a better contract for parties than they themselves have seen fit to enter into, or alter it for the benefit of one party and to the detriment of the other. The judicial function of a court of law is to enforce the contract as it is written.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).