Merrill v. Manufacturers Light & Heat Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that where a disputed term of an agreement is ambiguous, the court should then look to “attending circumstances” to construe it
• stating that deed should be construed to give effect to intent of the parties
• “surface support is not synonymous with surface destruction which as a matter of law accompanies strip mining”
• “[T]he grant of an easement is subject to the same rules of construction as other contracts”
• intention of parties “is determined by a fair interpretation and construction of the grant and may be shown by the words employed construed with reference to the attending circumstances known to the parties at the time the grant was made”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).