Walter Myers v. Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance Company, an Insurance Company Doing Business in Illinois

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the presence of minimal items did not prevent the court from concluding that the building Was vacant
• finding the term “construction” unambiguous and that it referred to the building of a new structure
• policy announced an exclusion and then an exception: “but a building in process of construction shall not be deemed vacant”
• “[I]n an insurance policy, the term construction does not include repairs, maintenance, reconstruction, renovation and the like to an already existing structure.”
• \ '[U]noccupied' means the lack of habitual presence of human beings .... This construction has been followed by ... numerous courts in many other jurisdictions ....\
• \ '[U]noccupied' means the lack of habitual presence of human beings .... This construction has been followed by ... numerous courts in many other jurisdictions ....\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).