RIESTERER v. CROWN LIFE INS. CO.

No. 79-1645.

653 F.2d 268 (1981)

J. A. RIESTERER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CROWN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. F. Boyle, Jr., Vandeveer, Garzia, Tonkin, Kerr & Heaphy, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.

James A. Thorpe, Denenberg, Tuffley & Thorpe, Ileen Gordon, Susan Tukel, Southfield, Mich., for defendant-appellee.

Before WEICK and MERRITT, Circuit Judges, and CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM.

In this Michigan diversity case, plaintiff, J. A. Riesterer, appeals a judgment entered on a directed verdict against her. She had sued defendant, Crown Life Insurance Co., to recover $25,000 she claimed was due her through an accidental death provision of an insurance policy. The district court concluded that there was insufficient evidence that the death had been accidental. Riesterer also appeals several evidentiary...

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