Robert M. Montgomery v. The Aetna Casualty & Surety Company

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “the court must be the jury’s only source of law”
• noting that interpretation of contracts is a question of law to be decided by the judge
• finding that the district court abused its discretion by allowing an expert to testify about the scope of the insurer’s duty under an insurance policy
• holding district court abused its discretion in allowing expert to testify a party “had a duty to hire tax counsel”
• finding that the district court abused its discretion by allowing an expert to testify about the scope of insurer’s duty to defend under the insurance policy
• noting that an expert witness “may not testify to the legal implications of conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).