McCOLLOCH, District Judge.
This case presents a question under the Oregon "felonious death" statute, which forfeits the interest of a slayer in his victim's life insurance policies; the statute also provides for disinheritance. Section 16-203, O.C.L.A. There are similar statutes in about half the States and the District of Columbia. 49 Harv.L.Rev. 715.
Iowa seems to have enacted the first statute, in 1907. The Oregon Law, enacted ten years later, follows the...
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