McCarthy v. U.S.I. Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “a contract should be construed viewing it as a whole”
• error to award party costs related to expert fees and expenses that were not associated with attendance at trial
• \A contract should be construed viewing it as a whole. An interpretation that would render any particular provision in the contract meaningless should be avoided.\ (citation omitted)
• “The overriding purpose of an award of compensatory damages for a breach of contract is to place the nonbreaching party in as good a position as she would have been in had there been no breach.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).