Canal Insurance Company v. James C. Dougherty, D/B/A East Coast Hatching Egg Express

I must, with deference, dissent from the Court’s action on the issue of reinstatement. As I view it, the decision ignores the fact that the language used can be read in at least two ways. With that choice open, the decision seems to me to abandon the Florida and universal rule of choosing the construction which broadens, not lessens, coverage. And Worse, as I read it, it adopts a construction which produces incongruous absurdities with no real benefit to either party but which cause the policy to fail in the historic function of insurance to meet the needs of the business being insured.

At the…