Prudential Insurance Company of America v. Alma Mae Long Gourley

267 F.2d 156

PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, Appellant,

v.

Alma Mae Long GOURLEY, Appellee.

No. 17431.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 22, 1959.

Ralph B. Tate, R. Foster Etheredge, Birmingham, Ala., Spain, Gillon & Young, Birmingham, Ala., of counsel, for appellant.

Burgin Hawkins, Birmingham, Ala., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and CAMERON and BROWN, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

1

William V. Long was murdered. He was found stabbed to death in his car at 5:00 a.m. June 8, 1957, in his home town of Birmingham, Alabama.

2

And yet, while this fact…