UNITED STATES v. KANN

No. 14092.

333 F.2d 146 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. William L. KANN et al., William L. Kann, Jr., Elise K. Goldman, Betty K. Wilson and Robert M. Kann, Additional Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Submitted October 12, 1963.

Decided April 10, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Jones, Jr., and Joseph Kovner, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, Michael A. Mulroney, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Joseph S. Ammerman and Gustave Diamond, U. S. Attys., Thomas J. Shannon, Asst. U. S. Atty., on the brief), for appellant.

Alexander Black, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rodewald, Kyle & Buerger, Pittsburgh, Pa., Vincent V. R. Booth, Boston, Mass., Edwin M. Jones, Edmund R. Harnedy, New York City, T. G. Thornbury, Fort Wayne, Ind., on the brief), for appellees New England Mut. Life Ins. Co., New York Life Ins. Co. and Lincoln Nat. Life Ins. Co.

Thomas Lewis Jones, White, Jones & Gregg, formerly White & Jones, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Richard C. Witt, Pittsburgh, Pa., Eugene T. O'Neill, Stuart A. McCarthy, Marshall F. Denenholz, Robert A. Kagan, New York City, on the brief), for appellee Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of the United States.

Gilbert J. Helwig, Pittsburgh, Pa. (J. Tomlinson Fort, Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, Pa., Harry Fisher, Newark, N. J., E. H. McVitty, Toronto, Canada, Gerald M. Swanstrom, Milwaukee, Wis., on the brief), for appellees Manufacturers Life Ins. Co., Northwestern Mut. Life Ins. Co. and Prudential Ins. Co. of America.

K. Martin Worthy, Glenn L. Archer, Jr., Hamel, Morgan, Park & Saunders, Washington, D. C., for Life Insurance Ass'n of America, amicus curiae.

Before BIGGS, Chief Judge, and McLAUGHLIN, KALODNER, STALEY, HASTIE, GANEY and SMITH, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This appeal presents the same issues as those decided today in United States v. Sullivan, 333 F.2d 100, and United States v. Wilson, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Appellant, 333 F.2d 137, i. e., issues relating to automatic premium loans and policy loans. We resolve these issues here as we did in the cases just cited.

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