Mayhew v. Benninghoff

How courts have described this case

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

• Court “baffled” by defendant attorney’s argument that “ethical responsibilities are lessened because he was dealing with a client who is very wealthy” and “highly schooled in business affairs.”
• “[T]he 26 doctrine of contra proferentem (construing ambiguous agreements against the drafter) 27 applies with even greater force when the person who prepared the writing is a lawyer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).