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PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA v. GOURLEY

No. 17431.

267 F.2d 156 (1959)

PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, Appellant, v. Alma Mae Long GOURLEY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 22, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph B. Tate, R. Foster Etheredge, Birmingham, Ala., Spain, Gillon & Young, Birmingham, Ala., of counsel, for appellant.

Burgin Hawkins, Birmingham, Ala., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and CAMERON and BROWN, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

William V. Long was murdered. He was found stabbed to death in his car at 5:00 a.m. June 8, 1957, in his home town of Birmingham, Alabama.

And yet, while this fact does take on some significance later, the sole questions before us arise out of the Alabama law of insurance. The possible criminal aspects have not been entrusted to us — especially as there is neither hint nor clue that the beneficiary was in any way involved...

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