Sun Oil Co. (Delaware) v. Madeley

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that surrounding circumstances are considered in determining whether written agreement is complete and exclusive statement of terms
• holding that when a contract is unambiguous the court shall confine its review to the agreement “as written”
• holding method of accounting in administering a contract was inadmissible evidence of a party’s interpretation
• stating that in construing an instrument, the court’s task is to seek the parties’ intention “as that intention is expressed” in the document
• stating that in construing an instrument, the court’s task is to seek the parties’ intention “as that intention is expressed” in the document
• explaining that surrounding circumstances are considered in determining whether written agreement is complete and exclusive statement of terms

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).