McCreary v. Acton

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The chief question to be determined is whether or not the last sentence of the letter — Exhibit A of the petition — is ambiguous. That sentence is as follows: “The terms mentioned by you of closing the matter January 1st will be acceptable.” When is a written contract ambiguous? In Novelty Hat Mfg. Co. v. Wiseberg, 126 Ga. 800 (55 S. E. 923), Mr. Justice Beck said (p. 801) : “Many definitions of the term ‘ ambiguous ’ can be found in the reports, in law dictionaries, and in the various standard lexicons, and *165while these definitions vary among themselves,…