Wells v. Ritter

How courts have described this case

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

• “whatever may be the scope of waiver in the law of insurance, it does not extend to the broadening of the coverage, so as to make the policy cover a risk not within its terms. That would require a new contract, and cannot be accomplished by waiver.”
• “whatever may be the scope of waiver in the law of insurance, it does not extend to the broadening of coverage, so as to make the policy cover a risk not within its terms. That would require a new contract, and cannot be accomplished by a waiver.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).