Long Motor Lines, Inc. v. Home Fire & Marine Ins.

How courts have described this case

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

• clarifying that in an insurance policy that defined “flood” as “the rising of streams or navigable waters,” “rising” necessarily connoted an abnormal rising of the waters
• noting that “flood” is defined in Black’s Law Dictionary [3d ed.] as “inundation of water over land not usually covered by it” and in another text as “a body of water rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually covered with water”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).