Legal Opinion
Savage v. . Howard Insurance Company
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 6, 1873PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The questions presented by these appeals resolve themselves into a single one as to the true construction of the policies of insurance. Contracts of insurance are construed so as to give effect to the intent of the parties as indicated by the language employed. They do not in any respect differ from other written instruments, but are interpreted by the same rules, and one cardinal rule of interpretation requires that words and phrases in contracts, as well as in statutes and other written instruments, shall be taken in their ordinary popular sense, unless they appear to have been used in a…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Grosvenor v. . the Atlantic Fire Insurance Co. of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1858
- Clinton v. . the Hope Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Springfield Fire & Marine Insurance v. AllenNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Stetson v. Massachusetts Mutual Fire InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1808
- Hitchcock v. . the North Western Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Rohrbach v. . Germania Fire Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1875
- Griffey v. New York Central InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1885
- Commercial Fire Ins. v. AllenSupreme Court of Alabama · 1886
- Gould v. Dwelling-House InsuranceMichigan Supreme Court · 1892
- Insurance Co. of North America v. EricksonSupreme Court of Florida · 1905
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