Perry and Wallis, Inc. v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where a contract is not ambiguous, the wording of the contract controls its meaning and resort cannot be had to extraneous circumstances or subjective interpretations
• holding that prior cases put persons on notice of interpretations to investigate any intended meaning
• “Where a contract is not ambiguous, the wording of the contract controls its meaning and resort cannot be had to extraneous circumstances or subjective interpretations to determine such mean ing.”
• “Where a contract is not ambiguous, the wording of the contract controls its meaning and resort cannot be had to extraneous circumstances or subjective interpretations to determine such meaning.” (iciting Duhame v. United States, 119 F.Supp. 192, 195, 127 Ct.Cl. 679 (1954))

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