“When presented with a contractual dispute, a court must read the contract as a whole with a view to ascertaining the intention of the parties, determining what the parties’ agreement is, and enforcing it.”
How later courts described this case
- “When presented with a contractual dispute, a court must read the contract as a whole with a view to ascertaining the intention of the parties, determining what the parties’ agreement is, and enforcing it.”
- “It is a cardinal principle of construction that a contract is to be construed as a whole.... ”
Written by the judges who cited it.
Later courts went against this
Overruled in part, on other grounds by Spectrum Health Hospitals v. Farm Bureau Mutual Ins Co of Michigan, 492 Mich. 503 (2012)
764 NW2d 304 (2009), overruled on other grounds by Spectrum Health Hospitals v Farm Bureau Mut Ins Co of Michigan, 492 Mich 503
The opinion
*363 HOEKSTRA, EJ.
(concurring). I concur in the result only.