37 Wash. 2d 322 - Carroll Construction Co. v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 1984
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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““. . . Business contracts must be construed with business sense as they naturally would be understood by intelligent men of affairs and in the same sense as is uniformly attached to them by the business world.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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