People v. McDonagh

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the meaning of -an unambiguous provision should “be gleaned from the face of the instrument”
• stating that the interpretation of an unambiguous contract provision is a question of law for the court
• proper inquiry in determining whether contract is ambiguous is whether agreement on its face is reasonably susceptible of more than one inteipretation
• to determine if ambiguity exists in contract court must determine “whether the agreement on its face is reasonably susceptible of more than one interpretation”
• “[R]eformation based upon mistake is not available where the parties purposely contract based upon uncertain or contingent events.”
• “As to mutual mistake, Paul sets forth no basis for his contention that both parties reached an agreement other than that contained in the writing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).