Twin City Fire Insurance v. Delaware Racing Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing the “the well- accepted contra preferentem principle of construction, which is that ambiguities in a contract should be construed against the drafter”
• explaining that under the contra proferentem principle of construction, “ambiguities in a contract should be construed against the drafter.”
• noting that the trial court applied “the well-accepted contra pr[o]ferentem principle of construction, which is that ambiguities in a contract should be construed against the drafter.”
• applying contra proferentem to construe an ambiguity in an insurance policy’s exclusion provision against the insurance company where the insured had no role in drafting the exclusion
• “When interpreting an ambiguous contract provision, courts should construe the ambiguous language against its drafter.”
• “Under standard rules of contract interpretation, a court must determine the intent of the parties from the language of the contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).