Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge RANDOLPH.
RANDOLPH, Circuit Judge:
After seven years an individual who disappears without a trace is, under common law and the laws of several states, presumed dead. The issue here is whether there is also a presumption that the individual died on the last day of the seven-year period, or in other words, that the individual was alive until that time.
After her husband died in 1977, Doris Cornwell began receiving...
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