Westmoreland-Lg & E Partners v. Va. Elec.

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• emphasizing that the trade usage at issue must have operated upon the parties’ minds when they employed the contractual language
• “No word or clause in the contract will be treated as meaningless if a reasonable meaning can be given to it, and there is a presumption that the parties have not used words needlessly.” (quoting D.C. McClain, Inc. v. Arlington Cnty., 249 Va. 131, 135-36 (1995))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).