Traders' Insurance Co. of Chicago v. Edwards Post No. 22, Grand Army of the Republic

Citations

• 86 Miss. 135

Syllabus

<p>1. Evidence. Written contract. Contradictory provisions. Parol.</p> <p>Where a -written, contract contains two descriptions of the time during which it was to he operative, each of which is perfectly clear in itself hut contradictory of the other, parol evidence is admissible, not to vary the contract nor to make a contract, hut to show what the contract really was.</p> <p>3. Same. Insurance policy. Ambiguity.</p> <p>Where a fire insurance policy hy its terms insured property “for a term of three years, from the 14th day of January, 1903, to the 14th day of January, 1904,”- parol evidence was admissible in an action on the policy to show which of the two periods named therein was the one in contemplation of the parties.</p>