FOX VALLEY & VIC. CONST. WKRS. PENSION F. v. BROWN

No. 88-2322.

897 F.2d 275 (1990)

FOX VALLEY & VICINITY CONSTRUCTION WORKERS PENSION FUND, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Laurine BROWN (Lamar), Defendant-Appellant, and Dessie Brown, Defendant-Appellee, and All Unknown Claimants, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Reargued December 6, 1989.

Decided March 9, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard M. Baum, James M. Neuman, Baum & Sigman, Chicago, Ill., Roy Hasseltine, Harris & Hasseltine, Florence, Ala., Nicholas F. Esposito, Mark A. Schramm, Terence M. Heuel, Esposito & Heuel, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee Fox Valley.

Gerald L. Morel, Masuda, Funai, Eifert & Mitchell, Chicago, Ill., Daniel N. Janich, Lyons, Ill., for defendant-appellant Laurine Brown.

Roy Hasseltine, Harris & Hasseltine, Florence, Ala., for defendant-appellee Dessie Brown.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, CUMMINGS, WOOD, Jr., CUDAHY, POSNER, COFFEY, FLAUM, EASTERBROOK, RIPPLE, MANION, KANNE, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.


Reargued En Banc December 6, 1989.

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This is an interpleader action filed by the Fox Valley & Vicinity Construction Workers Pension Fund ("Fund") to determine the proper recipient of a death benefit payable because of the death of Fund participant James Brown ("James"). The defendants in the action are Laurine Brown ("Laurine"), James's former spouse, and Dessie Brown ("Dessie"), James's mother. The district court denied...

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