Nolan v. Hearthside Homebuilders, Inc.

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• directing extrinsic evidence to be considered to ascertain the parties’ intent as to an ambiguous term in a deed restriction
• “When the terms of a written document are ambiguous and susceptible to different interpretations, extrinsic evidence may be considered by the court to ascertain the intent of the parties or to explain or clarify the ambiguous term.”
• “It was improper for the court to look to an outside source to determine the meaning of the word ‘building’ as used in the restriction, rather than first considering the language of the deed restriction as a whole.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).