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· 6/5/1959

Downs v. National Casualty Co.

Citations

  • 146 Conn. 490
  • 152 A.2d 316
  • 1959 Conn. LEXIS 195

How courts have described this case

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

  • interpreting the phrase \if I leave a widow\ as providing for the contingency of a subsequent marriage
  • ‘‘[e]very provision is to be given effect, if possible, and no word or clause eliminated as meaningless, or disregarded as inopera- tive’’

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Judges: Baldwin, King, Murphy, Mellitz, Phillips

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