Maytag Company v. Alward

How courts have described this case

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• noting this rule applies in the construction of contracts as well as statutes
• noting “the rule expressio uni-us est exclusio alterius — the expression of one thing of a class implies the exclusion of others not expressed” is applied “in the construction of contracts as well as statutes”
• rescission in equity is a form of relief or remedy which may be granted, inter alia, for fraud in the inducement to contract
• \The expression of one thing of a class implied the exclusion of others not expressed.\
• employer entitled to rescind stock option agreements and recover stock already sold to employee when employee left employment within the period he had promised to stay
• “An option is a continuing offer which the offeror may not withdraw until the time fixed has expired because the offer is based on a consideration.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).