Haynes v. American Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that when contractor hired to do excavation work cut down trees that turned out to be on a third party’s property, damage was “caused by accident” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding that when contrac tor hired to do excavation work cut down trees that turned out to be on a third party’s property, damage was “caused by accident” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• construction contractor who pointed out property line and then left construction site not charged with duty to foresee that his employees would cross line and commit trespasses on another's property
• “[W]here an insurance company, in attempting to limit coverage, employs ambiguous language, the ambiguity will be resolved against it as the one who drafted the instrument . . . .”
• “[W]here an insurance company, in attempting to limit coverage, employs ambiguous language, the ambiguity will be resolved against [the insurer] as the one who drafted the instrument, as is true in the construction of contracts generally.”
• “[W]here an insurance company, in attempting to limit coverage, employs ambiguous language, the ambiguity will be resolved against [the insurer] as the one who drafted the instrument, as is true in the construction of contracts generally.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).