· 9/19/1997
Voyager Life Ins. Co., Inc. v. Whitson
Citations
- 703 So. 2d 944
- 1997 Ala. LEXIS 396
- 1997 WL 578912
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- \[a]ny inconsistencies between clauses or conditions that cannot be reconciled must be resolved in favor of the first clause\
- quoted in Vesta Fire Ins. Corp. v. Liberty Nat'l Life Ins. Co. , 893 So.2d at 404
- “When we find an agreement to be ambiguous, we must employ established rules of contract construction to resolve the ambiguity found in the inartfully drafted document.”
- “With a choice between a valid construction and an invalid construction, the court has a duty to accept the construction that will uphold, rather than destroy, the contract.”
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Judges: Houston
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