Northwestern National Insurance v. Esmark, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• considering extrinsic evidence to ascertain the parties' common understanding of an ambiguous contract term
• using AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY (1969) to define “under” as “within the group or classification of” without further comment
• declining to decide an issue that the trial court did not rule upon in the first instance
• stating a contract is ambiguous only if subject to two reasonable interpretations
• ‘‘Although the parties disagree as to the proper interpretation of the contract, their disagreement does not create an ambiguity.”
• “Although the parties disagree as to the proper interpretation of the contract, their disagreement does not create an ambiguity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).