California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Columbia Enters. LLC v. T.M. Cobb Co., E069147 (Cal. App. 2019):
The trial court determined that the term "served" in the utilities clause did not mean stand-alone service. The fact that it reached this conclusion without considering external evidence means that the trial court believed the term "served" was unambiguous. However, there is "more than one possible meaning to which the language of the [utilities clause] is yet reasonably susceptible" under the circumstances herenamely, the commercial purchase of a stand-alone building. (Morey v. Vannucci, supra, 64
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