EQUITABLE LIFE INS. CO. OF IOWA v. CUMMINGS

No. 3251.

4 F.2d 794 (1925)

EQUITABLE LIFE INS. CO. OF IOWA v. CUMMINGS et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

March 16, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Wakefield, Alexander Cooper, and Max J. Spann, all of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Dorff & Levy and I. Alfred Levy, all of New York City, for appellant.

William McElwee, Jr., and James W. Rhodes, both of New Castle, Pa., for appellee.

Ward C. Henry, of Philadelphia, Pa., and C. Chester Kaufmann, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for Equitable Life Ins. Co. of Iowa.

Before WOOLLEY and DAVIS, Circuit Judges, and THOMPSON, District Judge.


THOMPSON, District Judge.

The Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa issued two certain policies of insurance upon the life of Jesse J. Freeman, each in the sum of $2,000, payable to Kathryn Cummings as beneficiary, and designating her as the fiancée of the assured. Kathryn Cummings also held an assignment of the policies, which had been accepted as such by the insurance company. At the death of Jesse J. Freeman, Kathryn Cummings claimed the amount of the policies...

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