Pillsbury Co., Inc. v. Wells Dairy, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding interpretation is a matter of law for the court when it does not depend on extrinsic evidence
• ruling the “cardinal rule of contract interpretation is to determine what the intent of the parties was at the time they entered into the contract“
• holding interpretation is a matter of law for the court when it does not depend on extrinsic evidence
• holding interpretation is a matter of law for the court when it does not depend on extrinsic evidence
• noting that an effective assignment “transfers the ‘entire rights under a contract from the assignor to the assignee,’” including the right to enforce contractual remedies (citation omitted)
• explaining that contract language is the most important evidence of intent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).