Rhone-Poulenc Basic Chemicals Co. v. American Motorists Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the terms of a contract are ambiguous “only when the provisions in controversy are reasonably or fairly susceptible of different interpretations or may have two or more different meanings”
• stating that a contract is ambiguous “when the provisions in 16 controversy are reasonably or fairly susceptible of different interpretations or may have 17 two or more different meanings”
• holding term is ambiguous if \reasonably or fairly susceptible of different interpretations\
• discussing ambiguity as the product of two or more reasonable interpretations
• ambiguity exists \when the provisions in controversy are reasonably or fairly susceptible of different interpretations or may have two or more different meanings\
• true test is not what the parties intended, but what a reasonable person would have thought

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).