Mark V, Inc. v. Mellekas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the district court should have allowed the parties to submit extrinsic evidence to show that the meaning of a contract was unclear
• holding that court committed error when it “relied solely on the face or the ‘four corners’ of the document”
• holding that court committed error when it \relied solely on the face or the 'four corners' of the document\
• holding that ambiguity may be discerned by fully examining the circumstances surrounding the making of an agreement and examining the contract terms in light of those circumstances
• concluding that ambiguity exists when a contract is reasonably susceptible of different constructions
• stating that ambiguity of contract can only be determined by examining the circumstances surrounding the contract’s making

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).