New Charter Coal Co. v. McKee

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing and applying doctrine that given one unreasonable construction and another equitable, reasonable construction, the latter will be adopted
• where language of a contract is ambiguous, courts prefer an interpretation that makes agreement rational and reasonable
• the court must not remedy the fecklessness of a contracting party in such a way as to make a contract for the parties that they did not make themselves
• “Absent some legally recognized infringement of the law of contract by one party, the law will not reform a written contract so as to make a contract for the parties that they did not make be[t]ween themselves. . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).