Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Strnad

How courts have described this case

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

• ‘Where the language of the contract is clear and can be carried out as written, there is no room for construction or modification of the terms.”
• cardinal rule of contract construction requires courts to determine parties’ intent from four corners of instrument by construing all provisions together; where language of contract is clear and can be carried out as written, there is no room for construction or modification of terms
• applying the expressio unius canon to a contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).