Sumitomo MacHinery Corporation of America, Inc. v. Alliedsignal, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• remanding a contractual dispute to the district court for further fact-finding because, “[w]hen a contract is ambiguous, the ‘fact-finder must attempt to discover what the contracting parties … intended [the disputed provisions] to mean’” (alterations in original
• remanding a contractual dispute to the district court for further fact-finding because, “[wj]hen a contract is ambiguous, the ‘fact-finder must attempt to discover what the contracting parties ... intended [the disputed provisions] to mean’ ” (alterations in original
• “When a contract is ambiguous, the ‘fact-finder must attempt to discover what the contracting parties ... intended[the disputed provisions] to mean.’ ”
• “Evidence of the circumstances is always admissible in aid of the interpretation of an integrated agreement. This is so even when the contract on its face is free from ambiguity.”
• an agreement is ambiguous if it is \susceptible of more than one meaning\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).