Levi Strauss & Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• under California law, “words used in a certain sense in one part of a contract are deemed to have been used in the same sense elsewhere in that instrument”
• in interpreting a contract, courts should not “create an ambiguity where none exists”
• “[t]he court does not have the power to create for the parties a contract which they did not make, and it cannot insert in the contract language which one of the parties now wishes were there.”
• “[t]he court does not have the power to create for the parties a contract which they did not 17 make, and it cannot insert in the contract language which one of the parties now wishes were 18 there.”
• “The court does not have the power to create for the 5 parties a contract which they did not make, and it cannot insert in the contract language 6 which one of the parties now wishes were there.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).