Opinion

Ferdie Sievers, Etc. v. Diversified Mortg.

  • 95 Nev. 811
  • 603 P.2d 270
  • 1979 Nev. LEXIS 667
Court
Nevada Supreme Court
Filed
Nov 30, 1979
Status
Published
Author
Gunderson
On the bench
Manoukian, Gunderson, Mowbray, Thompson, Batjer
Cited by
52 cases

expressing that “[i]t is 11 well settled that the expressed intention of the parties as to the applicable law in the construction 12 of a contract is controlling if the parties acted in good faith and not to evade the law of the real 13 situs of the contract”

How later courts described this case

  • expressing that “[i]t is 11 well settled that the expressed intention of the parties as to the applicable law in the construction 12 of a contract is controlling if the parties acted in good faith and not to evade the law of the real 13 situs of the contract”
  • affirming that, under choice of law principles, the governing-law 15 provision of a trust is valid and controlling
  • Nevada law honors the expressed intention of the 13 parties as to the applicable law in the construction of a contract if the parties “acted in good faith 14 and not to evade the law of the real situs of the contract.”
  • “[P]arties are permitted within broad limits to choose the law that will 26 determine the validity and effects of their contract.”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Gunderson, J.,

concurring:

I concur in the result.

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