Steigler v. Insurance Co. of North America

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining “a party will be bound by the plain meaning of clear and ambiguous language because creating an ambiguity where none exists could, in effect, create a new contract with rights, liabilities and duties to which the parties had not assented”
• contracts should be read to accord with the reasonable expectations of a reasonable purchaser
• “[A]n insurance contract should be read to accord with the reasonable expectations of the purchaser so far as the language will permit.”
• “[H]usband and wife are seized, not merely of equal interests, but of the whole estate during their lives and the interest of neither of them can be sold, attached or liened except by the joint act of both husband and wife.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).