Ward v. Berry & Associates, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the statement, “‘you should earn a bonus the first year’” indicated an intent to hire for a full year; in the present case, the contract contains a guaranteed minimum first year salary that we find analogous to the Ward bonus guarantee
• “It is also the general rule governing the construction of deeds, when it is sought to determine what estate was conveyed thereby, to ascertain the intention of the parties, if possible, by giving to each word of the deed its appropriate meaning and enforce that intention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).