J&B Steel Contractors, Inc. v. C. Iber & Sons, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• interpreting existence of ambiguity by looking solely at what appears within the written contract itself
• under Illinois law, “only the subject writing may be considered to determine the integration question”
• the UCC adopts the liberal approach favoring the admission of extrinsic evidence to determine the integration question
• \[t]he exception arises from duties of good faith and fair dealing implied in every contract\
• parol evidence rule “generally precludes evidence of understandings, not reflected in a writing, reached before or at the time of its execution which would vary or modify its terms”
• where contract was silent as to completion date, circumstances including the absence of an integration clause demonstrated that the contract did not represent entire agreement of the parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).