Legal Opinion
Harris v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
District Court, S.D. Iowa
Decided January 9, 1957No. Civ. A. No. 3-730PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REEVES, District Judge.
It is alleged in the complaint that the defendants, The Equitable Life Assurance Society and one Robert Smyth, conspired to bring about a breach of the contract of insurance of the defendant Assurance Society. The cause was brought in the state court and removed to this court on the ground of a separable controversy.
Able counsel for the plaintiff has endeavored to engraft upon a suit for breach of contract, a conspiracy. In the case of Sewell v. J. E. Crosbie, Inc., 127 F.2d 599, loc. cit. 602, the Court of Appeals, this Circuit, covered the identical point as follows:
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Sewell v. J. E. Crosbie, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1942
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