James v. Gulf Life Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding contracts should be interpreted so as to avoid an absurd result
• “The parties’ intention governs contract construction and interpretation; the best evidence of intent is the contract’s plain language.” (citation omitted)
• agreements must be interpreted in accordance with the intent of the parties at the time the agreement is executed, if that intent can be ascertained from the language
• “The inconvenience, hardship, or absurdity of one interpretation of a contract . . . is weighty evidence that such meaning was not intended when the language is open to an interpretation which is neither absurd nor frivolous.”
• “[A] construction leading to an absurd result should be avoided.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).