Thompson v. Latimer

How courts have described this case

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

• “where an express contract is made defining the circumstances under which an obligation may arise with reference to a certain subject matter such contract excludes the possibility of an implied contract concerning the same matter”
• “[W]here words having a definite legal meaning are knowingly used in a writing -12- the parties will be presumed to have intended such words to have their proper legal meaning in the absence of any contrary intention appearing in the instrument.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).