Judgment reversed on the law without costs and new trial granted.
Memorandum:
Defendant contends that the trial court erred in charging the jury that, if any term used in the insurance policy was susceptible to more than one interpretation, the term must be construed in favor of the insured. Since the interpretation of the policy's ambiguous terms was without reference to extrinsic proof, it was for the court to determine as a matter of law (see,
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