United Steamship Co. v. Societe Nouvelle d'Armement

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “[t]he function of the courts in relation to taxes is ... to review legislation and executive-administrative action and to determine their correctness”
• “In construing an ambiguous contract, three well-recognized rules of construction require: (1) that the intentions of the parties to the agreement must control the obligations thereunder; (2
• in interpreting a contract, a court should give effect to every clause
• “Each word in a contract is presumed to have a unique meaning and, thus, no word or clause is to be treated as a redundancy, if any meaning reasonable and consistent with other parts can be given to it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).