SAYERS v. ROCHESTER TELEPHONE CORP.

No. 1650, Docket 93-7217.

7 F.3d 1091 (1993)

Richard E. SAYERS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The ROCHESTER TELEPHONE CORPORATION SUPPLEMENTAL MANAGEMENT PENSION PLAN; William H. Cherry; James B. Loughlin; Joanne H. Miller; Donna L. Reeves-Collins; Kenneth P. Schirmuhly; Mary L. Sickel, as Members of the Rochester Telephone Corporation Employees' Benefit Committee; Rochester Telephone Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 28, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth A. Payment, Rochester, NY (A. Paul Britton, Harter, Secrest & Emery, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

William D. Eggers, Rochester, NY (Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before: CARDAMONE and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges, and CEDARBAUM, District Judge.


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 case 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...

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