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· 4/16/1969

Goswick v. Employers Casualty Company

Citations

  • 440 S.W.2d 287
  • 12 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 338
  • 1969 Tex. LEXIS 297

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that insured controlled rods and tubing in repairing oil well pumps, but not oil well
  • “[W]e must presume that the objective of the insurance contract is to insure, and we should not construe the policy to defeat that objective unless the language requires it.”
  • courts must presume that the objective of an insurance contract is to insure and should not construe a policy to defeat that objective unless the language requires it
  • courts must presume that the objective of an insurance contract is to insure and should not construe a policy to defeat that objective unless the language requires it

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Judges: Reavley

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