Ferrenbach v. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Ass'n

The sole purpose of the judicial construction of a contract is to ascertain the intention with which the parties made it. These parties agreed that the mortuary assessments were payable “within thirty days from the date of each notice,” and the sole .question in this case is whether they intended, not by this stipulation alone, but by the entire contract, to agree that the assessment of April I, 1899, should be payable within 30 days from the date upon the printed notice of it, which was mailed to the assured under the agreement, or within 30 days from the time when, in the ordinary course of…