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· 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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