Truck Insurance Exchange v. Marks Rentals, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• ambiguity in an instrument resolved against party responsible for drafting it, absent evidence indicating the intention of the parties
• “an ambiguity does arise if, to a reasonably prudent layman, the language used is susceptible of more than one meaning”
• plaintiff filed tort action against employer of individual who was operating vehicle involved in an accident
• plaintiff filed tort action against employer of individual who was operating vehicle involved in an accident
• stated that later endorsement supersedes conflicting terms in policy when insurer responsible for drafting of instrument
• whether an employee was acting in the scope of employment is an issue “which must be resolved in the [pending] tort suit” and not in a declaratory judgment action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).