Hess Construction v. Francis O'Day Co.

Hess Constr. + Eng’g Servs., Inc. v. Francis O. Day Co., Inc. No. 1116, Sept. Term 2023 Opinion by Leahy, J. Contracts > Construction and Operation > General Rules of Construction > Construction as a Whole When a court engages in contract interpretation, it should endeavor to give effect to each clause in order to prevent “an interpretation which casts out or disregards a meaningful part of the language of the writing unless no other course can be sensibly and reasonably followed.” Cochran v. Norkunas,

398 Md. 1, 17

(2007) (quoting Sagner v. Glenangus Farms,

234 Md. 156, 167

(1964)). Contracts >…