Telex Corporation v. Data Products Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[i]t is an elementary principle of law that a contract must be construed as a whole,” and “[t]he intention of the parties must be gathered from the entire instrument and not from isolated clauses”
• if a contract is clear, \it is neither necessary nor proper in construing it to go beyond the wording of the instrument itself\
• if a contract is clear, “it is neither necessary nor proper in construing it to go beyond the wording of the instrument itself’
• “It is not ordinarily the function of courts to rewrite, modify, or set aside contract provisions fully considered and agreed upon between the parties.”
• “It is not ordinarily the function of courts to rewrite, modify, or set aside contract provisions fully considered and agreed upon between the parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).