Olympia Brewing Co. v. Oregon Liquor Control Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• “courts are without power, under the guise of interpretation, to alter a testator’s will or to make a new will for him”
• “a latent ambiguity [exists] where the language employed is clear and intelligible and suggests but a single meaning, but some extrinsic fact or extraneous evidence creates the necessity for interpretation or choice among two or more possible meanings” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).