The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company v. The United States

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 language of a contract must be afforded the meaning derived from the contract by a reasonably intelligent person”
• ruling that intention of contracting parties controls contract’s interpretation
• stating that “the intention of the parties to a contract control its interpretations”
• the court must place itself \into the shoes of a `reasonable and prudent' construction contractor\
• the court must place itself “into the shoes of a ‘reasonable and prudent’ construction contractor”
• regulation prescribing price escalation term in government contracts does not supplant price escalation contract term

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).