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HEWITT v. EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR. SOC.

No. 4380.

8 F.2d 706 (1925)

HEWITT v. EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR. SOC. OF UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

October 26, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stratton & Kane, Elmer W. Leader, and Alfred J. Schweppe, all of Seattle, Wash., for plaintiff in error.

Alexander & Greene, Kerr, McCord & Ivey, and Wm. Z. Kerr, all of Seattle, Wash., for defendant in error.

Before GILBERT, RUDKIN, and McCAMANT, Circuit Judges.

GILBERT, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above).

It is well settled that an insurance company is not absolved from liability on its policy because the beneficiary murders the insured. Cleaver v. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Ass'n, 1 C. D. 147; Supreme Lodge, K. L. H., v. Menkhausen, 209 Ill. 277, 70 N. E. 567, 65 L. R. A. 508, 101 Am. St. Rep. 239; Slocum v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 245 Mass. 565, 159 N. E. 816, 27 A. L. R. 1517; Schmidt v. Northern Life...

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