Shay v. Aldrich

Not all cases that come before this Court are defined in terms of their core *677dispute with as much clarity as this one. At issue here is how a contract is properly read in the state of Michigan. That is, should a contract be read as a function of the parties’ subjective intent or should it be read as a function of the unambiguous words of the contract itself? This case is that simple and that significant. Relying on the rule from Romska v Opper, 234 Mich App 512; 594 NW2d 853 (1999), which embodied the principles of more than a century of Michigan contract law, the Court of Appeals properly…