Trustees of the First Baptist Church v. Brooklyn Fire Insurance

By the court,

Rosekrans, J.

There was no ambiguity • in the words “ permanent policy,” and the judge properly excluded evidence to show what was their meaning. - They were correctly assumed to mean, as was insisted by the *449plaintiff, an insurance from year to year, and until terminated by an express notice by one of the parties to the contract to the other. The words of a contract are to be regarded as used in their common and ordinary sense, unless they are shown to have acquired and to have been used in a technical sense. No such evidence was given or offered in relation to the use of the…