Stewart v. Brennan

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the course of dealing between the parties is a surrounding circumstance to be considered when a contract is ambiguous
• in the course of holding that the trial court abused its discretion in granting a new trial, noting that “there was substantial evidence presented at trial to support the verdict”
• when the meaning of specific contractual terms is unclear, a court may consider extrinsic evidence, such as evidence of surrounding circumstances and the subsequent acts and conduct of the parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).