Johnson v. Equitable Fire and Marine Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “A court construing an insurance contract is not authorized to seize upon certain and definite covenants expressed in plain English with violent hands and distort them so as to include a risk clearly excluded by the contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).