Smedley Co. v. Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Co. of Wisconsin

How courts have described this case

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

• finding ambiguity upon applying noscitur a sociis canon to insurance policy exclusion
• initial grant of coverage for damage to ice cream due to provision and incorporation of wrong ingredient
• the meaning of words in insurance policies are “revealed by their association with other words,” that is, that words “are known by the company they keep”
• canon extends to interpretation of exclusion clauses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).