FARBER v. SHELL OIL CO.


47 N.J. Super. 48 (1957)

135 A.2d 243

KEEVIC FARBER AND MAE FARBER, PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided October 14, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Francis E.P. McCarter argued the cause for appellant (Messrs. McCarter, English & Studer, attorneys).

Mr. Harold D. Feuerstein argued the cause for respondents (Mr. Irving I. Wittes, attorney).

Before Judges CLAPP, JAYNE and HUGHES.


The opinion of the court was delivered by HUGHES, J.S.C.

We consider here an appeal from a judgment entered in the Chancery Division (in the formal litigation frame of a suit for an accounting of rent) dealing with the construction of a contract deemed by it, in law, to be ambiguous of meaning, and determining, as trier of the fact, a pattern of surrounding circumstance requiring the interpretation reached by that court. Not only these legal and factual findings,...

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