Southern Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Lyle

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 court may “look outside the written terms of the contract” to determine the parties’ intent only when an ambiguity exists
• “Where the contract terms are clear and unambiguous, the court will look to that alone to find the true intent of the parties.”
• “Where, as here, ambiguities exist, we may look outside the written terms of the contract and consider all the surrounding circumstances to determine the parties’ intent.”
• decided under former Georgia Code civil usury statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).