Pch Mut. Ins. Co., Inc. v. Casualty & Surety, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A]s a general matter of contract law, the word ‘may’ is viewed as a permissive, rather than mandatory, term . . . .”
• \The inquiry is an objective one: the court must determine what meaning a 'reasonable person in the position of the parties' would attach to the disputed language.\
• “The inquiry is an objective one: the court must determine what meaning a ‘reasonable person in the position of the parties’ would attach to the disputed language.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).