Legal Opinion
Stephanie Hartmann and Eva Hartmann v. Prudential Insurance Company of America, Debra Hartmann, and Harvey Loochtan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 9, 1993No. 92-3664PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This diversity suit for fraud and for equitable reformation of an insurance contract grows out of a notorious murder. In 1978, Werner Hartmann, a German immigrant who had made a fortune in the car stereo business, married a striptease artist whom he had met at a local nightclub where she was performing. She was much younger than he. The marriage was soon on the rocks. In 1981 Debra Hartmann moved out of the marital abode and in with her lover, a tennis pro — and gun-store clerk — named Korabik. They decided to murder Werner before he could divorce her. He held at the time…
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