ÆTNA LIFE INS. CO. v. LINDSAY

No. 4985.

69 F.2d 627 (1934)

ÆTNA LIFE INS. CO. v. LINDSAY.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 30, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Wheeler, Martin F. Oehmke, and William C. Dunham, all of East St. Louis, Ill., for appellant.

Ralph F. Lesemann, Harold G. Baker, and K. C. Ronalds, all of East St. Louis, Ill., for appellee.

Before ALSCHULER, SPARKS, and FITZHENRY, Circuit Judges.


ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from a judgment for $5,000 awarded appellee as her damages occasioned through the disinterment of and autopsy upon the body of her father, Charles E. Webber, procured to be done by appellant without appellee's consent.

The father, at his death on May 13, 1930, held two policies of accident insurance issued by appellant, one, called "Acme Accident Policy," dated June 27, 1918, for $10,000, with his wife the beneficiary...

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