Ress v. Barent

How courts have described this case

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• “It is ... a general rule of contract law ... that contracts made during a decedent’s lifetime are not dissolved by death.”
• the writing itself that is to determine the rights and liabilities of the parties, and, where the language of the contract is clear, the court is required to give words their plain meaning
• upon concluding that Sadye ánd Sanford, two heirs of company founder, had standing to sue successor company, panel ordered Sadye and Sanford to amend complaint to aver that they are the sole heirs and assigns, or, in the alternative, to aver “the names of all. heirs and assigns”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).