Kenneth Freeman v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
BENTON, Circuit Judge.
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company brought a diversity suit against Kenneth Lee Freeman, to declare that its household exclusion clause applied to the accident that resulted in the death of his son. After submission of the case on briefs to the judge, the district court 1 ruled for State Farm. Freeman appeals. Jurisdiction being proper under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, this court affirms.
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Freeman’s son, Dallas, died in an accident while riding in a car driven by his mother, Melinda llene Elam. Elam and her children were moving from Kansas City, Kansas, to Mountain…
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