Salamone v. Gorman

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a court should interpret an agreement “in the context of the overall structure of the contract”
• construing a contract’S language should adhere to what “would be understood by an obj ective, reasonable third party.”
• explaining that Delaware “adheres to the objective theory of contracts[]”
• construing a contract’s language should adhere to what “would be understood by an obj ective, reasonable third party.”
• prohibiting in the absence of ambiguity interpretations that rely on extrinsic evidence, including prior negotiations
• explaining that “Delaware law adheres to the objective theory of contracts,” meaning that “a contract’s construction should be that which would be understood by an objective, reasonable third party” (quoting Osborn ex rel. Osborn v. Kemp, 991 A.2d 1153, 1159 (Del. 2010))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).