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· 5/8/1961

Mazzilli v. Acc. & Cas. Ins. Co. of Winterthur

Citations

  • 170 A.2d 800
  • 35 N.J. 1
  • 1961 N.J. LEXIS 132

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that courts \are bound to protect the insured to the full extent that any fair interpretation will allow\
  • explaining that court should find broadest coverage possible under insurance policy when controlling language is susceptible to multiple interpretations
  • holding, for insurance purposes, that a wife was a resident of her husband’s household even though she didn’t live under the same roof
  • finding \no requirement that members of a household live under the same roof\
  • construing the phrase \resident of the household\ to cover insured's wife
  • Divorced husband and wife, residing in two houses husband built on same lot prior to divorce, held to reside in one household

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Judges: Francis

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