Aetna Fire Underwriters Insurance v. Crawley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• following statutory direction to construe ambiguous contract “against the party preparing the instrument”
• majority of cases apply “surface water” term strictly to water on surface of ground and not to rainwater falling on and flowing from roof of insured dwelling
• where homeowner’s insurance policy insured against damage by surface waters, the policy comprehended damage from water on the surface of the ground and, therefore, excluded coverage for damage from rainwater which fell on the insured’s roof and flowed into the insured’s dwelling

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).