Soukup v. Employers' Liability Assurance Corp.

(dissenting). — I am unable to agtfee with the majority opinion and deem it expedient to express my views on this case.

Do these policies cover an occupational disease contracted by an employee of the defendant ? ‘ ‘ The construction of insurance contracts are governed by the same general rules as are applied to the ■construction of other written contracts. ‘The function of the courts is to construe them, not to make them.’ ” [Henderson v. Mass. Bonding & Ins. Co., 337 Mo. 1, 84 S. W. (2d) 922, l. c. 924.] Where possible, it is our duty to give every clause of the policy some meaning. Clause…