· 1/29/1992
World-Wide Rights Limited Partnership v. Combe Incorporated Combe Puerto Rico, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation
Citations
- 955 F.2d 242
- 21 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1780
- 1992 U.S. App. LEXIS 1064
- 1992 WL 12615
How courts have described this case
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- stating that if the terms of a contract are unambiguous, the Court may interpret the contract as a matter of law
- if “resort to extrinsic evidence … leaves genuine issues of fact respecting the contract’s proper interpretation, summary judgment must of course be refused and interpretation left to the trier of fact”
- \Only an unambiguous writing justifies summary judgment without resort to extrinsic evidence\
- A contract is ambiguous if “susceptible of two reasonable interpretations.”
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Judges: Powell, Phillips, Niemeyer
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