Opinion

Jurd v. Pacific Indemnity Co.

  • 57 Cal. 2d 699
  • 21 Cal. Rptr. 793
  • 371 P.2d 569
  • 1962 Cal. LEXIS 217
Court
California Supreme Court
Filed
May 17, 1962
Status
Published
Author
McCOMB
On the bench
Dooling, McComb
Cited by
36 cases

“The whole of a contract is to be taken together, so as to give effect to every part, if reasonably practicable, each clause helping to interpret the other.”

How later courts described this case

  • “The whole of a contract is to be taken together, so as to give effect to every part, if reasonably practicable, each clause helping to interpret the other.”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

McCOMB, J.

I dissent. I would affirm the judgment for the reasons expressed by Mr. Presiding Justice Van Dyke in the opinion prepared by him for the District Court of Appeal, (Cal.App.), 16 Cal.Rptr. 271 .

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