Save-Mor Supermarkets, Inc. v. Skelly Detective Service, Inc.

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 words “in attendance,” appearing in an insurance contract, “are words in common use and we must give to them the meaning intended when they are used by ordinary men”
• holding that language of standard policy, which is prescribed by statute and controlled by division of insurance rather than individual insurer, must be interpreted according to “the fair meaning of the language used, as applied to the subject matter”
• a court must ascertain the fair meaning of the language and apply it to the subject matter
• construing words in a contract of insurance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).