Tatar v. Maxon Construction Co., Inc.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE TRAPP,

dissenting:

It is customarily said that the primary object in construing a contract is to give effect to the intention of the parties. Such intent is to be determined from the language used when no ambiguity in such language exists, and a strict construction of that language which reaches a different result should not be adopted. Schek v. Chicago Transit Auth., 42 Ill.2d 362, 247 N.E.2d 886.

The words used are to be given their usual, normal and natural meaning, Knockaert v. Studebaker Corporation, 84 Ill.App.2d 16, 228 N.E.2d 101, and the instrument is to be read…