CHEATHAM v. CHEATHAM

No. 12722.

235 F.2d 249 (1956)

David CHEATHAM, Appellant, The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the United States of America, Defendants, v. Elizabeth CHEATHAM, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

July 13, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Hooker, Nashville, Tenn. (Hooker, Keeble, Dodson & Harris, Nashville, Tenn., on the brief), for appellant.

R. C. Boyce, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., for appellee.

Before SIMONS, Chief Judge, McALLISTER, Circuit Judge, and STARR, District Judge.


STARR, District Judge.

David Cheatham, one of the defendants in the trial court, appeals from a judgment for Elizabeth Cheatham, plaintiff and appellee, entered on the jury's return of a special verdict, and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

Plaintiff and Fletcher Burkette Cheatham, a brother of defendant David Cheatham, were married in 1938 and thereafter lived together in Detroit, Michigan. On April 1, 1951, defendant The Equitable Life...

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