Spratt v. Crusader Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an expert’s affidavit could not be a stand-in for a dictionary definition because it is the role of the court to determine how the average person would understand the policy
• holding that an expert's affidavit could not be a stand-in for a dictionary definition because it is the role of the court to determine how the average person would understand the policy
• following Webster’s Dictionary and construing the word “beverage” in an insurance policy as “a ‘liquid for drinking’” especially “‘such liquid other than water . . . [usually] prepared . . . before being consumed.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).