State v. Home Indemnity Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Determining whether or not the delay in disclaiming was reasonable is generally a question of fact for the jury.”
• \[T]he ambiguity must be resolved against the insurer which drafted the contract.\ (citation omitted)
• “if the tendered extrinsic evidence is itself con-clusory and will not resolve the equivocality of the language of the contract, the issue remains a question of law for the court”
• “[I]f the tendered extrinsic evidence is itself concluso-ry and will not resolve the equivocality of the language of the contract, the issue remains a question of law for the court.”
• “If ... the lahguage in the insurance contract is ambiguous and susceptible of two reasonable interpretations, the parties may submit extrinsic evidence as an aid in construction ....”
• “We give the words of the agreement their ordinary and plain meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).