Jamestown Mut. Ins. Co. v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. 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 an adult son who had recently moved back in with his father qualified as a resident of his father’s household under his father’s automobile insurance policy
• living in the home for periodic intervals over most of his adult life
• living in the home for periodic intervals over most of his adult life
• construing an ambiguous policy provision in the favor of the insured
• the words “resident,” “residing,” and “residence” have no precise, fixed meaning applicable to all cases
• definitions contained in “standard, nonlegal dictionaries may be a more reliable guide to the construction of an insurance contract than definitions found in law dictionaries”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).