Muir v. Demaree

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a “lay person would understand” the language in the exception cited by Lucky Leather to “include both water that comes up out of a sewer, drain or sump (‘backs up’) and water that spills over from a sewer, drain, or sump (‘overflows’
• holding that a “lay person would understand” the language in the exception cited by Lucky Leather to “include both water that comes up out of a sewer, drain or sump (‘backs up’) and water that spills over from a sewer, drain, or sump (‘overflows’) due to a blockage”
• rejecting insured’s arguments that analogous water exclusion applied only to damage caused by major external events and that “drain” does not include a toilet

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).