NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO. v. HATCHER

No. 9435.

115 F.2d 52 (1940)

NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO. v. HATCHER et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 17, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shepard Bryan, of Atlanta, Ga., and R. Lanier Anderson, Jr., of Macon, Ga., for appellant.

Furman Smith, of Atlanta, Ga., for appellees.

Before FOSTER, SIBLEY, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The main question here is whether a verdict should have been instructed for the appellant Insurance Company in the trial of suits upon two insurance policies issued by it on the life of R. W. Hatcher. The face amount of each policy was paid into court, and the contest was over the promise to pay "double the face of this policy upon receipt of due proof that the death of the insured resulted directly and independently of all other causes from...

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