Countryside Orthopaedics, P.C. v. Peyton

In these two appeals, the first question we address is whether four agreements executed as part of a single transaction to accomplish an agreed purpose should be construed together even though all the agreements were not executed by the same parties. The second question is whether a doctor, who was a party to three of the agreements, can enforce a provision providing for severance pay. Because we conclude that the agreements should be construed as one instrument and that the doctor now claiming severance pay was the first party to commit a material breach, we will reverse that part of the…