Ivy Nelson Grain Co. v. Commercial U. Ins. Co. of NY

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he test is not what the insurer intended its words to mean, but what a reasonable person in the position of the insured would understand them to mean”
• all only while contained in or attached to such buildings or structures
• “[W]here there is ambiguity, the test is not what insurer intended its words to mean, but what a reasonable person in the position of the insured would understand them to mean.”
• “[T]he words in a contract of insurance are given their ordinary meaning, and, where there is ambiguity, the test is not what the insurer intended its words to mean, but what a reasonable person in the position of the insured would understand them to mean.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).