Rappaport v. Stutz Bros.

How courts have described this case

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

• events are separate “accidents” if they are distinguishable in time and space and one event does not cause the other
• “the courts have declared on countless occasions that it is the responsibility of the court to interpret written instruments.... This is obviously so where there is no ambiguity.”
• if “no questions of credibility are raised, and there are no inferences to be drawn from the extrinsic evidence ... the motion presents] an issue of law”
• basic objective of contract interpretation is to determine intent of parties from language employed
• “The continuum between the two impacts was unbroken, with no intervening agent or operative factor.”
• “The continuum between the two impacts was unbroken, with no intervening agent or operative factor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).