Sayers v. Rochester Telephone Corp. Supplemental Management Pension Plan

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires an interpretation of a contract between a telephone company and one of its high-level executives, Richard E. Sayers, who thinks this a classic ease of lawyers negotiating the language of a deal, the parties signing it, and then its validity and meaning being left to be later contested. Perhaps it is true that everything that can be said or written can be said or written clearly; certainly the parties before us on this appeal think their written agreement is clear and unambiguous. But, in light of the claimed clarity, surprisingly each of them…