Legal Opinion
Faron v. Penn Mutual Life Ins.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 5, 1949No. 9711PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIGGS, Chief Judge.
Jurisdiction in the case at bar is based on diversity of citizenship. The plaintiff, Winfield Scott Faron’s widow, is a citizen of New York. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company (“Mutual”) is a corporation of the State of Pennsylvania. Mr. Faron was insured by Mutual by a policy issued in 1937. He was killed while riding as a fare-paying passenger on a regularly scheduled flight in a commercial passenger aircraft' of Eastern Airlines when the airplane crashed near Chesire, Connecticut, on January 18, 1946. The policy is in the face amount of $5,000 and has a clause…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- New York Life Ins. Co. v. LevineCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1943
- Clapper v. Aetna Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1946
- Faron v. Penn Mut. Life Ins.District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1948
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