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BARNETT v. AETNA LIFE INS. CO.

Nos. 8252-8254.

139 F.2d 483 (1943)

BARNETT et al. v. AETNA LIFE INS. CO. SAVINGS INVESTMENT & TRUST CO. v. SAME. BARNETT v. EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR. SOC. OF UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 9, 1943.

Writs of Certiorari Denied March 6, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward A. Markley, of Jersey City, N. J. (Collins & Corbin, and James J. Langan, all of Jersey City, N. J., on the brief), for defendants-appellants.

Arthur T. Vanderbilt and Walter F. Waldau, both of Newark, N. J. (Lindabury, Depue & Faulks and H. Edward Toner, both of Newark, N. J., and George A. Brown, of Hackensack, N. J., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees Jeannette E. Barnett and Leon E. Stropp.

Before JONES, GOODRICH, and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.

Writs of Certiorari Denied March 6, 1944. See 64 S.Ct. 637.

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

These three suits present the same questions of law and fact and were consolidated for trial. They are based on insurance policies on the life of one Robert J. Barnett. Plaintiffs did not prove the actual death of the assured but rested their cause of action on the New Jersey Presumption of Death Statute (N.J.R.S. 3:421, N.J.S.A...

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