ætna Life Ins. Co. v. Lindsay

ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from a judgment for $5,-000 awarded appellee as her damages occasioned through the disinterment of and autopsy upon the body of her father, Charles E. Webber, procured to be done by appellant without appellee’s consent.

The father, at his death on May 13, 1930, held two policies of accident insurance issued by appellant, one, called “Acme Accident Policy,” dated June 27, 1918, for $10,000, with his wife the beneficiary; the other, called “Ticket Policy,” of date May 11, 1930, for $5,000, payable in case of his accidental death to his executors,…