Legal Opinion
Reliance Life Ins. Co. v. Burgess
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 29, 1940No. 11657PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARDNER, Circuit Judge.
This was a proceeding brought by the appellant as plaintiff against the appellees as defendants, under the Federal Declaratory Judgment Act, Jud. Code § 274d, 28 U.S.C.A, § 400, for a determination of the rights of appellees and the obligation of appellant under the accidental death benefit of six policies of life .insurance and one policy of accident insurance issued by appellant to Thomas A. Burgess,'the appel-lees’ ' intestate. . The parties will be referred to as they were designated below.
Thomas A. Burgess, the insured under each of the policies, died on the 7th of…
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