Southern Crane Rentals, Inc. v. City of Gainesville

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining where parties’ contract was silent as to right to anticipatory repudiation, governing law, rather than trade custom, controlled available remedy
• a provision for the right to cancel a contract unilaterally must be expressly provided for in the contract
• “Where a contract is simply silent as to a particular matter, courts should not, under the guise of construction, impose on the parties’ contractual rights and duties which they themselves omitted.” (citation omitted)
• \[A] custom cannot prevail over a legal right.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).