Legal Opinion

Aetna Life Insurance Company v. Messier

District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania

Decided April 14, 1959No. Civ. A. 6233PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JOHN W. MURPHY, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff, a Connecticut corporation, filed an action of interpleader, 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 1335, 1397, 2361, F.R.Civil Proe.Rule 22, 28 U.S.C.A., to determine which of three claimants, all residents of this district, 1 is entitled to the proceeds 2 of Group Certificate No. 2842, issued by plaintiff, an insurer, to Linwood Joseph Messier, since deceased, as an employee of Slater System, Inc., the policyholder, under Group Policy No. 53169.

April 18, 1937, Messier married Grace Elizabeth Boote at Wilmington, Delaware. Thelma M. Messier was born of that marriage. After…

2Cases cited61 opinions

  1. Warnock v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
  2. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. SchaeferSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  3. Boseman v. Connecticut General Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
  4. Young v. HippleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1922
  5. Kerrigan's Estate v. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1952

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3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Chubb v. Amax Coal Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1984
  2. Henning v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1982
  3. Mrs. Mae Hester Bohannon v. Manhattan Life Insurance Company, Defendant-Third-Party v. Jackson's Atlanta Ready Mix Concrete Company, Inc., Third-PartyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1977
  4. Brezan v. Prudential Ins. Co. of AmericaDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1981
  5. Butcher v. PollardOhio Court of Appeals · 1972

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