Spalding v. Agri-Risk Services

RE, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff, Jean Spalding, individually and as the administrator of the estate of her deceased son, Ford Spalding, sued in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, to recover on a life insurance policy on a stallion. She appeals from an order which denied recovery and granted summary judgment in favor of defendants, Agri-Risk Services and Traders Insurance Company.

Defendants assert that, since the stallion had been “operated upon for castration,” the insurance policy ceased to cover the insured animal. Plaintiff contends that defendants’ failure to…