Jenkins v. National Union Fire Insurance Co.

Grice, Justice.

“The contract of insurance should be construed so as to carry out the true intention of the parties.” Code, § 56-815. The contract being in writing, the words thereof should be looked to in order to discover the intention of the parties. As was said by this corrrt in Southern Fire Insurance Co. v. Knight, 111 Ga. 622, 632 (36 S. E. 821, 42 L. R. A. 70, 78 Am. St. R. 216) : “The question is, what have they agreed upon? If there was any room to doubt as to the intention of the parties, that construction which is most reasonable and most consonant with justice would be applied.…