SPAUNHORST v. EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR. SOC. OF U. S.

No. 9346.

14 F.Supp. 154 (1936)

SPAUNHORST v. EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR. SOC. OF U. S.

District Court, W. D. Missouri, W. D.

March 26, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cope & Hadsell and Walter Raymond, all of Kansas City, Mo., for plaintiff.

Michaels, Blackmar, Newkirk, Eager & Swanson and Kenneth E. Midgley, all of Kansas City, Mo., for defendant.


OTIS, District Judge.

It is attempted by the plaintiff in her first amended petition to state a cause of action under a provision in a life insurance policy providing for double indemnity in the event the insured should die from accidental causes. The facts stated are that the insured "was accidentally stabbed by a convict in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester, while the said Louis C. T. Spaunhorst was engaged upon his duties at said penitentiary; that as...

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