RELIANCE LIFE INS. CO. v. FANCHER

Nos. 15, 25.

30 F.Supp. 264 (1939)

RELIANCE LIFE INS. CO. v. FANCHER et al. BURGESS v. RELIANCE LIFE INS. CO.

District Court, W. D. Missouri, Central Division.

July 13, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard F. Major, of Columbia, Mo., Stockard & Stockard, of Jefferson City, Mo., and Jones, Hocker, Gladney & Grand, of St. Louis, Mo., for Reliance Life Ins. Co.

Clark, Boggs, Peterson & Becker and Cave & Hulen, all of Columbia, Mo., for Fancher, Burgess and others.


COLLET, District Judge.

The above two cases are pending on motion to consolidate. The issues of fact in each are identical, i. e., whether the insured died from accidental causes or from suicide.

If the above considerations were alone involved, the motion would be sustained without question. But one of the cases is an action by the beneficiary as plaintiff against the insurance company, the defendant, with the plaintiff beneficiary obviously carrying the burden...

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