Home Ins. Co. of New York v. Scott

In United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Guenther, 31 F.(2d) 919, 920, this court cited Imperial Fire Insurance Co. v. Coos County, 151 U. S. 452, 463,14 S. Ct. 379, 38 L. Ed. 231, to the effect that the contract provisions involved in the case then before it are manifestly “to be construed according *14to the sense and meaning of the terms which the parties have used, and, if they are clear and unambiguous, their terms are to be taken and understood in their plain, ordinary, and popular sense.” In that connection Thompson v. Phenix Insurance Co., 136 U. S. 287, 297, 10 S. Ct. 1019, 34 L. Ed.…