McGraw v. Ranieri

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that courts have responsibility to “honor the parties’ agreement without altering it” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• recognizing that an “ambiguity exists” if “contract language is susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation”
• recognizing that an “ambiguity exists” if “contract language is susceptible to more than one reasonable interpretation”
• holding that parties cannot rely on extrinsic evidence to give a contract a meaning different from that which its language imports
• holding that interpretation of unambiguous contract is question of law that is reviewed de novo
• holding that “the court of appeals went too far in looking beyond the Settlement Agreement’s language to interlineate limitations and specific results not expressed in the instrument itself”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).