Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Dawkins

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming a judgment in favor of the insured where the insurance agent obtained far less coverage than directed
• failure to read and understand policy or application does not defeat policy-holder’s claim against insurance broker relied upon for his expertise
• “Mere failure to read and understand a policy may not be utilized to otherwise defeat a policy-holder’s claim.”
• “It is the universal rule that an agent or broker of insurance who is compensated for his services and undertakes to procure insurance for another and unjustifiably fails, will be held liable for any damage resulting.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).