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LEXINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY v. RYDER SYSTEM, INC.

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142 Ga. App. 36 (1977)

234 S.E.2d 839

LEXINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY et al. v. RYDER SYSTEM, INC.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided April 18, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hurt, Richardson, Garner & Todd, Robert L. Todd, Robert B. Wedge, for appellants.

Troutman, Sanders, Lockerman & Ashmore, J. Kirk Quillian, Ralph H. Greil, for appellee.

DEEN, Presiding Judge.

1. "[A] contract of insurance couched in language chosen by the insurer is, if open to the construction contended for by the insured, to be construed most strongly, or strictly, against the insurer and liberally in favor of the contention of the insured." Fokes v. Interstate Life &c. Ins. Co., 59 Ga.App. 680 (2 S.E.2d 170); Southeastern Fidelity Ins. Co. v. McDonald, 125 Ga.App. 394, 398...

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