Pioneer International Hotel v. First Colony Life Insurance

OPINION

Before BARNES and ELY, Circuit Judges, and PALMIERI,* District Judge. BARNES, Senior Circuit Judge:

Three separate actions were filed in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, Tucson Division, seeking to recover death benefits under three separate policies of life insurance. The insured under each of the policies was one Newton S. Pfeffer. All three were subsequently consolidated for trial.

After the close of the defendants’ case, the Court entered a finding that there was no issue for the jury to determine and that under the law the defendants were entitled to…