Montoya v. Villa Linda Mall, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that lease granting award of prevailing party’s attorney fees in event of any action or proceeding “relating to the provisions of this lease, or any default hereunder,” allowed fees for tenants who prevailed in claims of negligent misrepresentation and constructive fraud
• “It is black letter law that, absent an ambiguity, a court is bound to interpret and enforce a contract’s clear language and cannot create a new agreement for the parties.”
• “It is black letter law that, absent an ambiguity, a court is bound to interpret and enforce a contract’s clear language and cannot create a new agreement for the parties.”
• court “cannot create a new agreement for the parties”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).