Layne v. Henderson

How courts have described this case

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• contract between three tenants in common providing that upon the death of one, the others
• “No word or clause in the contract will be treated as meaningless if a reasonable meaning can be given to it, and there is a presumption that the parties have not used words needlessly.”
• providing the plain meaning of \successor\ in a contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).