Zimmerman v. Goodyear-Wende Oil Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• declining the invitation to interpret an ambiguous labor cost saving provision in a construction contract to allow the contractor to recover $100,000 if they performed the contract at a savings of $100,000, but only $500 if they performed at a savings of $101,000
• “every part of a contract should be interpreted to give effect to its general purpose”
• “It is a fundamental principle that the intention of the parties must be gleaned from all corners of the document, rather than from sentences or clauses viewed in isolation”
• “every part of a contract should be interpreted to give effect to its general purpose. Where ... a literal construction defeats and contravenes” that purpose, it must be rejected

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).