MALLERS v. EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR. SOC.

No. 5844.

87 F.2d 233 (1936)

MALLERS v. EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR. SOC. OF THE UNITED STATES et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

December 18, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick A. Brown and Leo M. Hirschtritt, both of Chicago, Ill. (G. Gale Roberson, of Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for appellant.

Homer H. Cooper, Wendell J. Brown, and Samuel O. Givens, Jr., all of Chicago, Ill., for appellee Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of the United States.

Harris F. Williams and Robert C. Baumgartner, both of Chicago, Ill., for appellees Sadie D. Eaton and Eva E. Coombs.

Adelor J. Petit, James C. Leaton, and Adelor J. Petit, Jr., all of Chicago, Ill., for appellee Mollie Eaton, personally and as executrix of Jennie Eaton Mallers' estate.

Before EVANS and SPARKS, Circuit Judges, and LINDLEY, District Judge.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an interlocutory decree sustaining a bill of interpleader and discharging appellee, Equitable Life (upon payment of $77,232.88 into court), from liability on certain policies of life insurance and enjoining the executor of insured and the legatees and executrix of deceased beneficiary from prosecuting any actions on the policies.

John B. Mallers, Jr., the insured under four life insurance policies of the face value...

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