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LIFE INVESTORS INS. CO. OF AMERICA v. HELINE

No. 62443.

285 N.W.2d 31 (1979)

LIFE INVESTORS INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, an Iowa Corporation, and Union Life Insurance Company, an Ohio Corporation, Appellants, v. Dorothy M. HELINE, in her individual capacity and as Administrator of the Estate of John Peter Heline, Deceased, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 14, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy J. Walker and Kermit S. Sutton of Whitfield, Musgrave, Selvy, Kelly & Eddy, Des Moines, for appellant Life Investors Ins. Co. of America.

Stewart, Hatfield, Klass & Whicher, Sioux City, for appellant Union Life Ins. Co.

John P. Dollar of Seery, Dollar & Griffin, Des Moines, for appellee.

Considered en banc.

LARSON, Justice.

Plaintiff life insurance companies commenced an action for disinterment for an autopsy to determine the cause of death of an insured. The trial court, concluding the request was not made within a reasonable time, refused to order disinterment. On appeal, we reverse and remand for entry of a disinterment order.

John Heline, husband of the defendant Dorothy M. Heline, died on July 1, 1974. The death certificate stated his death was by natural...

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