Murphy v. Doll-Mar, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• determining “meaning of the contract based upon the meaning that would be attached to it by a reasonable person”
• interpretation of a written instrument is as a general rule an issue of law for the reviewing court to determine
• “In reaching the proper interpretation we require that the words and phrases used by the parties be given their common meaning, ... and this court will determine the meaning of the contract based upon the meaning that would be attached to it by a reasonable person”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).