Garrett v. State Farm Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the court’s “function is to ascertain the meaning of language used and enforce it according to its legal effect”
• “When a written contract refers in specific terms to another writing, the other writing is part of the contract.”
• “When a written contract refers in specific terms to another writing, the other writing is part of the contract.”
• “Contracts of insurance are like other written contracts in that the intention of the parties controls and when the language is plain and unambiguous, the intention of the parties is determined by the policy language.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).