North American Van Lines v. Collyer

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “a party who, by his own acts, prevents performance of a contract provision cannot take advantage of his own wrong”
• requiring plaintiffs to pay the initial arbitration filing fees even though the defendant asked the circuit court to stay the legal proceedings and insisted on exercising its contractual arbitration rights
• “[A] party who, by his own acts, prevents performance of a contract provision cannot take advantage of his own wrong.”
• “A court is not empowered to rewrite a clear and unambiguous provision, nor should it attempt to make an otherwise valid contract more reasonable for one of the parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).