CALIFORNIA-WESTERN STATES LIFE INS. v. SANFORD

Civ. A. No. 80-3673.

515 F.Supp. 524 (1981)

CALIFORNIA-WESTERN STATES LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. Edward SANFORD, Jr., Edward Sanford, III, Mobuta Sanford, and Kente Sanford.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

May 29, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick R. Bott, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Madeleine Fischer, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, La., for Edward Sanford, Jr.

John M. Landis, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, Lawrence L. LaGarde, Jr., New Orleans, La., for defendants Edward Sanford, III, Mobuta Sanford and Kente Sanford.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SEAR, District Judge.

On the evening of February 16, 1979, on a street in New Orleans, Edward Sanford, Jr. shot and killed his estranged wife, Jennifer, while the couple's three children watched from the backseat of a car. Sanford then shot himself, but survived the injury. He was arrested and prosecuted for his wife's murder in the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. After stipulating to the shooting, Sanford presented...

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