STATE

v.

BRITTAIN

Citator

Cited By (25 total)

• United States Rubber Prods., Inc. v. Clark, 145 Fla. 631 (Fla. 1941)
  …ence to, the data sheet so as to include and make it a part of the contract. It is a primary rule that, in construing contracts or instruments, we must seek the intention of the parties at the time of executing them. Holmes v. Kilgore, 89 Fla. 194, 103 So. 825. The intent of the parties with respect to any feature of the contract must be determined from an examination of the whole of the contract, and not of disjointed parts of it. It is not enough to look to an isolated phrase or paragraph of the contrac…
• ACE Elec. Supply Co. v. Terra Nova Elec., Inc., 288 So. 2d 544 (Fla. 1st DCA 1973)
  …Development and Eng. Corp. v. Ortega Co., 117 Fla. 438, 158 So. 94, 97 (1933); Pembroke Park Lanes, Inc. v. High Ridge Water Co., 186 So. 2d 85 (Fla.App.1966); Bennett v. Williams, 149 Fla. 4, 5 So. 2d 51 (1941). In Holmes v. Kilgore, 89 Fla. 194, 103 So. 825, 827 (1925), the Court said: “All contracts must be given a reasonable interpretation according to the intention of the parties at the time of executing them, if that intention can be gleaned from the language of the contracts. Where the language o…
• Fla. Power Corp. v. City OF Tallahassee, 154 Fla. 638 (Fla. 1944)
  …cute, while the other interpretation would make it unequitable, unnatural, or such as a reasonable man would not be likely to enter into, then the reasonable, logical and.rational interpretation should be adopted. See Holmes v. Kilgore, 89 Fla. 194, 103 So. 825; Ross v. Savage, 66 Fla. 106; 63 So. 148; Durham Tropical Land Corp. v. Sun Garden Sales Co. 106 Fla. 429, 138 So. 21, 143 So. 758. In 17 C.J.S. 726, par. 309, the rule is stated viz: “Inconsistent and conflicting clauses must be construed so as to…