BLACK, J.
Two quotations, dating back to 1886 and 1887 respectively, will serve to present for application to this case a mature rule of interpretive contract law:
"The facts and circumstances attending the making of a contract, are indispensable to a correct construction or interpretation thereof, and if it is executory, and its terms uncertain or ambiguous, the manner in which the parties themselves have treated it, in carrying it into effect, is entitled...
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