Benavides v. J.C. Penney Life Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding an issue must be presented to and passed upon by the trial court before it may be raised and adjudicated on appeal
• holding issue not properly before appellate court when issue was raised during summary judgment proceedings but was not addressed by the district court and the party asserting the issue on appeal had not filed a motion asking for a ruling
• issues must be “presented to and passed upon” by trial court to be raised and adjudicated on appeal
• defining intoxication for purposes of an insurance-policy exclusion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).