Maryland Casualty Co. v. Buckeye Gas Products Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• examining a supplier-distributor agreement requiring the supplier to name the distributor as an additional insured
• finding contract will be enforced as written if the language is clear and 14 unambiguous
• expecting instructions “to provide adequate guidance to the jury 12 on the task that lay before it” and stating that “[i]nstructions will be held adequate if 13 they fairly represent the law applicable to the issue in question”
• “A court may not, through reformation, impose liability based on a term of the contract that is contrary to the expectations of the parties and not the subject of their prior agreement.”
• “ Reformation of a written instrument is appropriate only when the instrument does not represent the true agreement of the parties and the purpose of reformation is to give effect to the parties ’ actual intentions. ”
• “ Reformation of a written instrument is appropriate only when the instrument does not represent the true agreement of the parties and the purpose of reformation is to give effect to the parties ’ actual intentions. ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).